I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Douglas Sirk

Home is the nicest word there is.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.

Luther Burbank

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path. No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded. Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything. Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.

Paulo Coelho

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Victor Hugo

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

Coco Chanel

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

Giada De Laurentiis

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. McGill

...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron