I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

Sam Donaldson

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Man Ray

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Dave Barry

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein, Interview, 1930

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Virginia Woolf

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Damian Lewis

Keep a positive mind. Remember, a failed attempt doesn't make you a failure—giving up does.

Lorii Myers

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

George Orwell

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Thomas Kempis

Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Charles Dickens

You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.

Stephen Richards