Today is yesterday's pupil.

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

Tiffeny Milbrett

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Jane Austen

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Julien Benda

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Doug Coupland

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

William Hague

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

Stephen Ambrose

... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Michael J. Gelb

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

Percy Ross

Il semble, encore ajourd'hui, qu'elle n'aurait pu s'épanouir ailleurs que dans ce paysage étrange et fabuleux, hanté par les fantômes, mais protégé par les fées

Dominique Demers

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

George Allen