I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Francis Bacon

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

We're here to put a dent in the universe.

Steve Jobs

When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Adrienne Rich

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Ben Stiller

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

Tom Hooper

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.

William Shakespeare