It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Thomas Fuller

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

Catherine Deneuve

No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

English Proverb

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

John McGahern

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

George Lucas

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Maynard James Keenan

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

Maurice Sendak

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean de la Bruyere

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

John Adams

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

Charles Foster Bass

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Helen Garner