When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Daniel Day-Lewis

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

J. B. Priestley

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

Joyce Maynard

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

Ray Comfort

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Albert Einstein

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

Martin Luther King Jr.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Barbara Kruger

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

...so many people end up doing, consciously or not, what others expect of them, or they settle for less because they think achieving their dream is too hard. Richard Nelson Bolles and Carol Christen- Rob Sanders- pediatric physician

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

John Luther

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

George Eliot

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Oliver Goldsmith