If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Richard Henry Stoddard

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Henry Ford

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

Terry Pratchett

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Jerzy Kosinski

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Samuel Butler

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Jack Brickhouse

Most of us have to conquer and ceaselessly reconquer the person whom we desire. It is therefore necessary to arouse love in that person.

Andre Maurois

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles Monroe Schulz

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

Thomas Malory

In order to understand the universal perspective,first you have to know more than a version of truth.

Toba Beta