I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Oscar Wilde

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

Lucy Liu

Do you think we can be friends? I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. Probably not, but we can pretend.

Priya Ardis

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Joseph Conrad

If toast always lands butterside down, and cats always land ontheir feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a catand drop it?

Steven Wright

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

Fred L. Turner

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Lord Chesterfield

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe. Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right. Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit it to imitate the sayers. The poet does not wait for the hero or the sage, but, as they act and think primarily, so he writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning the others, though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sitters or models in the studio of a painter, or as assistants who bring building materials to an architect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

Soupy Sales

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

Orlando Bloom

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Samuel Johnson

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Dag Hammarskjold