Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.

Eric Liu

One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

Charles de Lint

What's in a name?

William Shakespeare

It conquers nihilism and pessimism/Suicide and self-annihilation./ It conquers its own death. /It is the spark of fire that kindles life forever.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Orson Welles

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

Raymond Chandler

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Carl Hiaasen

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Milton Glaser

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

Sean Astin

The integrity of the game is everything.

Peter Ueberroth

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Nick Wechsler