For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.

Earlier today I was eating a nugget.

Angello Wellson-Noble

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

W. C. Fields

The dead should not rule the living

Thomas Jefferson

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

George Orwell

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Casey Stengel

Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

Kate Hudson

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Paulo Coelho

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

Emeril Lagasse

What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?

Henry Miller

But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Jodi Picoult

There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.

Frederick Loewe

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson