A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling, introduction to the

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

Ben Affleck

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Francis of Assisi

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

Joan Didion

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Donna Rice

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

Thom Yorke

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

Meryl Streep

What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.

Francis Bacon

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick the Great

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Paul Klee

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

Benjamin Walker