I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder

Lew Wallace

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--It gives a lovely light!

Edna St. Vincent Millay, First F

The game is won one play at a time.

Anonymous

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Harvey Fierstein

This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.

Richard of Saint Victor

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

Steve Coogan

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Oscar Wilde

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

Marc Bloch

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, "Four

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Virginia Woolf

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey