So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

Holly Black

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

Gene Tierney

All truths are not to be told.

George Herbert

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Herodotus

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

Charles Dance

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

Avril Lavigne

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

Ernst Fischer

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Source Unknown

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Joyce Brothers

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Cyrano de Bergerac

I ended the war a horse ahead.

Nathan Bedford Forrest