Trying to force creativity is never good.

The sight made her ache. she thought hopelessly, and then she was doing it, her fingers on his wrist. He didn't jump or even look at her, just stopped writing. Neither one of them moved, nothing moved, and the whole thing lasted three or four seconds at most, but when Pen took her hand away and started to breathe again, her chest hurt, as though she had been holding her breath for a very long time.

Marisa de los Santos

Are you up to your destiny?

William Shakespeare

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

Enid Starkie

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Nathalie Sarraute

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

Vera Farmiga

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Leo Tolstoy

If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.

John Podhoretz

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Jim Fraser

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

Steven Wright

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Sylvia Plath

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Jesse McCartney