[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired.

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

John Updike

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

James Payn

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

Isaac Newton

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

Tom Flores

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Leo Tolstoy

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

William Shenstone

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

Harry S Truman

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

Henry Miller

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

Ryan Sheckler