And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.

George Gribbon

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Rocco DiSpirito

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Edwin Powell Hubble

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

Bill Watterson

We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice.

Charles Manson

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

W. Somerset Maugham

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Oscar Wilde

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

Alexander McCall Smith

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Gene Roddenberry

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

Henry Adams, The Education of He

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

Morgan Freeman