I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

Robin Williams

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Robert Conklin

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

J.K. Rowling

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.

Alexis Arguello

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Publilius Syrus

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

Cassandra Clare

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.

Jeff Davidson

Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.

Charles Churchill

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

Madeline Claire Franklin

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

Ian Botham