It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

Adventure is not outside; it is within.

Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayso

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

George Carlin

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Alan Moore

It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

Garrett Hedlund

You can say no and smile only when there's a bigger yes burning inside you

Source Unknown

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Jeanette Winterson

There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.

David Letterman

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Marlo Thomas

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

Eric Bana

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.

Joseph E. Rogers

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

Edward Carpenter