With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Thomas Carlyle

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

Kathy Griffin

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

Ryan Sheckler

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Plautus

Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

Neil Gaiman

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

Samuel Beckett

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Marguerite Duras

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote.

Steven Wright

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Leo Durocher

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Pittacus