Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

Roman Payne

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other, they would inevitably fall in love, as it is called, with each other; but at six months end if you would throw them both into public life wh

Samuel Johnson

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Desiderius Erasmus

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Oscar Wilde

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

George Strait

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

Tippi Hedren

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Orson Welles

Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you the doors of breath, Seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

William Shakespeare

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Wernher Von Braun

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Kevin Smith

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor