When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

Walt Disney, On being a celebrit

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau

God's finger touched him and he slept.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

C. S. Lewis

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

Major Taylor

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

Alma Gluck

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

Shigeru Miyamoto

It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.

Nicole Appleton

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

William Zinsser

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Edgar Saltus

The future is the past returning through another gate.

Arnold Glasgow