In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Grace under pressure

Ernest Hemingway

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Eddie Marsan

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

Lil Wayne

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

Al Franken

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Robertson Davies

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

George Eliot

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be defeat, is one who will inspire them to fight against apparently impossible odds. They will, indeed, never suffer defeat, but will fight on until annihilated by capture or death. The secret of success even in the more pacific engagements of life lies in this principle

H. E. E. Hayes

Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

Jean Paul

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Herbert Read

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Epictetus

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Richard Branson