So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Harold S. Geneen

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

Anna Friel

Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.

Steve Maraboli

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew

A hug is like a boomerang you get it back right away.

Bil Keane

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Margaret Drabble

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

Anne Wilson Schaef

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Peter De Vries