A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

No man, proclaimed Donne , is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island ) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes-forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

Neil Gaiman

WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

George Orwell

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Denzel Washington

I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.

Alison Sweeney

If you would create something,you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

Alice Miller

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

Sally Field

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Billy Wilder

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

But everything changes. To deny change is to deny life. And the present moment contains miracles. Including an ability to see and receive the new.

Brooke Berman

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

Dick Wolf