Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

J. J. Abrams

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Anne Lamott

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Virginia Woolf

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G. K. Chesterton

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Emily Blunt

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Ernest Hemingway

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

John Bunyan

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Thomas Jefferson

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish Proverb