'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewis L. Lewisohn

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

Ron White

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

Virginia Woolf

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

Sean Durkin

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Oscar Wilde

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Jim Harrison

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

Arthur Scargill

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

Richard Donner

He's soft and strong at the same time; beautiful and cold like a polished japanese katana.

Kazuma Kodaka

He was massive, a veritable Arnold Schwarzenegger of a cat, with a wide, handsome face and a proud, lionish expression.

Nicholas Dodman