The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.

Kyle Rote Jr.

You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Norah Jones

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Terry Pratchett

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

Henry Miller

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.

Mario Stinger

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Thorstein Veblen

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Her face was a synthesis of perfect symmetry and unusual proportion; he could have gazed at it for hours, trying to locate the source of its fascination.

J.K. Rowling

Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?

Hitopadesa

Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.

Chris Cleave