Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Glen Hansard

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Anne Bronte

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

Zinedine Zidane

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Jim Palmer

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

Garrison Keillor

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

Lucille Ball

I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

Shailene Woodley

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

Francis Atterbury

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Max Lerner

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Plutarch, Of Hearing

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett