After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.

Stephen King

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Jos

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

William H. McRaven

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Ingmar Bergman

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

Teemu Selanne

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

E.O. Wilson

Behind a great success, there was a great failure

Michael Hermanto

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

Lawrence Kasdan

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Robert Burns

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White