My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Peter Erskine

It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back.

Silas Weir Mitchell

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Jodie Foster

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

Danny DeVito

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Mae West

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

Lee Scott

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Kahlil Gibran

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

Source Unknown

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

Beth Ditto