What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

Thomas Frank

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer

Thomas Carlyle

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Phillips Brooks

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Judith Martin

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

Marco Rubio

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

Ayelet Waldman

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

Rob Kardashian

The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.

Leonard Neal

Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.

Doug Malouf

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Charles de Montesquieu

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai Stevenson