A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

Jeff Bridges

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

Anwar Sadat

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

Ernest Hemingway

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Franklin P. Jones

Ricky was L but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our O, had some homework to do,Mitchell, E prob'ly got lost on the way,So I'm all of the love that could make it today.

Shel Silverstein

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

Marilyn French

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

William Eardley IV

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Robert B. Parker

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin