When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

Lyle Lovett

People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.

Anton Chekhov

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

John Ruskin

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

Melissa Rosenberg

Life without Love is like Music without Sound.

JJ Sereday

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Jared Diamond

I keep asking myself these three questions ... What do you have? What do you want? What will you give up?

Jack Ma

You can only use someone for so long before you dry them out. How long does a muse last? When do you let them loose?

Coco J. Ginger

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

Source Unknown

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

Jodi Picoult

The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her sunshyny face / To tell, were as to strive against the streame.

Edmund Spenser