People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

Maxim Gorky

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Chuck Noll

Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

Jeff Goodell

To earn more, you must learn more.

Brian Tracy

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Calvin Trillin

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Alexander Dumas

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

Jacques Pepin

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Baltasar Gracian

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Mike Huckabee

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

Anna Chlumsky