Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

Ari Graynor

The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

William Wordsworth

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Malcolm X

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Orison Swett Marden

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Henry David Thoreau

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

Graham Swift

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Peter Gilcrest

Staring at my outstretched pinky questioningly his perfect lips twitched into a smile. Pinky promise?

Natalie Valdes

We only part to meet again.

John Gay

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

Susan Sontag