I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

Mike Myers

She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.

Lisa Genova

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Franz Liszt

I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.

Madonna

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

William Cowper

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Marcia Cross

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Don Marquis

If you allow an experienced man of the world to introduce you to passion when you want him more than he wants you, he will own your soul, but you will not own his.

Mary Jo Putney

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

Graham Swift