Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Miguel de Cervantes

If we’re not stretching, we’re not growing. If we’re not growing, we’re probably not fulfilling our potential. The only person in this room that knows your potential is you.

Kevin Turner

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

Alain Robert

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

Bette Midler

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Lewis Thompson

I is another.

Arthur Rimbaud

You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

Lord Melbourne

Politics makes strange bed-fellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

Monica Seles

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Justin Kaplan