I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Nancy Lopez

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Xun Zi

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Terry Pratchett

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Dorothy Parker

Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.

Thomas S. Monson

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Edward Gibbon

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

John Green

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Avril Lavigne

I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.

Pia Toscano

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Doug Coupland

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

R. Buckminster Fuller

From the wreck of the past, which hath perishWritten to his half sister following his exile on grounds of incest with her.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, To A