A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

General George Patton

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

E. M. Forster

I am not a morning person.

Laurell K. Hamilton

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

Nicholas Brendon

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Baltasar Gracian

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Isabel Allende

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

Michael Scott

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Genevieve Gorder

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

George Bernard Shaw