I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Catherine Helen Spence

Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.

Fritz R. S. Dressler

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

Boris Pasternak

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

Andrea Jung

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

I made all my generals out of mud.

Napoleon Bonaparte

One can do worse than be a swinger of birch trees.

Robert Frost

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

This most beautiful system The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Sir Isaac Newton

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson