Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

Chris Messina

Love is enough: while ye deemed him a-sleeping, There were signs of his coming and sounds of his feet; His touch it was that would bring you to weeping, When the summer was deepest and music most sweet...

William Morris

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

J. B. Priestley

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Ty Cobb

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Vincent Van Gogh

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

Kevin Nealon

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Daphne Zuniga

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Heller

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

Jessica Lange