With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

Joe Roman

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

Reinhold Niebuhr

...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. ISaid in 1979, on giving up her attempt to be named director of the television version of the first volume of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou, As quoted in Reel

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Benjamin Disraeli

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Samuel Butler

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

Richard Siken

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

Emily Watson

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

Michael John Bobak

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow.

Emily Miller

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Euripides