But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.

Dong Nguyen

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

Bern Williams

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome.

Josh Hutcherson

Thought is free.

William Shakespeare

My neighbor has a circular driveway...he can't get out.

Steven Wright

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

Jennifer Garner

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

Tina Louise

Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

George Santayana