For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

Atticus Shaffer

Any fool can be happy.It takes a man w a real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep

Clive Barker

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Patrick Kavanagh

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Chris Brown

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Frederic Raphael

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

Walt Disney

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Edwin Powell Hubble

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

Charlotte Bronte

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Aristotle

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

Gil Gerard

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Daniel Francois Esprit Auber