Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Julie Walters

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

Douglas Adams

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Max McKeown

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Jim Carrey

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Omar Khayyam

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Alfred Adler

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Florence Griffith Joyner

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

Neil Gaiman

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin