It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Robert Falcon Scott

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

Alan Shearer

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

Terry Pratchett

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Denis Leary

All problems are finally scientific problems.

George Bernard Shaw

The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.

J.K. Rowling

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Debby Boone

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

Joely Fisher

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

Alan Dershowitz

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

Linus Torvalds

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Michael Symon

The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Johann von Goethe