A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Jeff Bridges

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

Nana Mouskouri

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

Elliot Richardson

Done to death by slanderous tongues

William Shakespeare

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

Tim McGraw

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Charlie Chaplin

I've always been interested in making movies.

Lance Bass

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

C. L. R. James

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson

Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.

Frank C. Bucaro