It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Voltaire

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Bobby Darin

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Julian Schnabel

I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, and yet rending the hardest monuments of mans pride, if you give them time. The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed. So I am against all big organizations as such, national ones first and foremost; against all big successes and big results; and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way, under-dogs always, till history comes, after they are long dead, and puts them on top. You need take no notice of these ebullitions of spleen, which are probably quite unintelligible to anyone but myself.

William James

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Geroge Lorimer

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

William Shakespeare

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

Jim Clyburn

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

William Shenstone

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!

Gloria Pitzer