If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

Diablo Cody

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Nick Clooney

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

Thomas More

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.

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My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Bertrand Russell

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.

John Steinbeck

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

Mark Overby

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

Bear Grylls

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Henry Ward Beecher

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

Martin Amis

For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races To a goal no foot can reach, For reckless leaps into darkness With hands outstretched to a star, There is jubilation in Heaven Where the great dead poets are.

Joyce Kilmer

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Brian Eno