So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

I believe only in art and failure.

Jane Rule

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Earl Nightingale

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a mans.

C.S. Lewis

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Dave Eggers

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

Hosni Mubarak

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died

Mark Twain

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Keith Henson

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

Edna Ferber

Eyes, look your last Arms, take your last embraceand lips, O you doors of breath seal with a righteous kiss as a dateless bargain to the engrossing death

William Shakespeare

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Frederick the Great

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable.

Ernest Hemingway

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott