One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

Robert Macneil

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.

Sydney Smith

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There was once a man in China who liked pictures of dragons. His clothing and his furniture were therefore accordingly adorned with dragons. This deep affection for their kind was brought to the attention of the Dragon Lord, who one day sent a real dragon to stand outside the man's window. It is said that he probably died of fright.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, from Hagakur

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

John Boorman

Silence is the perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

Andrea Arnold

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Ogden Nash

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Elbert Hubbard

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bernard Berenson