Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

Kristen Wiig

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The trap had a ghastly perfection

Stephen King

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

William S. Burroughs

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Henry Rollins

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Earl Nightingale

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

Doris Lessing

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Meryl Streep

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

Francis Bacon

God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.

Bertrand Russell