The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Victor Hugo

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

Fred Davis

Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.

Jim Rohn

It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

Adam Arkin

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

Larry David

Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.

Terry Pratchett

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common

William Nazlitt

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Evan Parker

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

Brother Lawrence

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Eric Hoffer

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

Joss Stone

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Haruki Murakami