Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

Dino De Laurentiis

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Victor Hugo

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Robert Morgan

February 13, 1951. No! I cannot claim that with the end of this notebook, of the notebook, all will be settled, that all will have been done. Perhaps I will have the desire to add to this again. To add something. To add. Perhaps. To add to this again at the last momenthttp://www.adpf.asso.fr/adpf-publi/folio/textes/gide_ang.rtf

Andre Gide, the source for this

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world & I might be right.

Charles Barkley

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Sidney Poitier

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Greer Garson

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

Lisa Loeb

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Muhammad Ali

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.

Alexis de Tocqueville