If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

Captain J. G. Stedman

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

Charles Baudelaire

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

Catherine Bell

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Marcel Duchamp

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Ren Mulford Jr.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

John Green

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

Paula Poundstone

Life flows on within you and without you.

George Harrison

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Oscar Wilde

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Eddie Bernice Johnson