It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Melissa Gilbert

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Dorothea Brande

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

Stana Katic

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Stephen King

When people say perhaps it's cause they're lying. Either they don't believe the thing they're saying, or they do believe it only they don't want to admit they do.

Orson Scott Card

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Charles Stanley

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

John Hughes

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Sir Thomas Browne

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Thomas Hood

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.

Iain Duncan Smith

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard