The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

William J. Broad

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.

Margaret Forster

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

Jerry Saltz

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Dylan Thomas

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

Bill Squires

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

Maria Sharapova

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

Anne Rice

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

Macaulay Culkin

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Kenneth Hildebrand

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Terry Pratchett