Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

Karen Thompson Walker

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world & I might be right.

Charles Barkley

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

Joe Manganiello

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

Julie Burchill

All seems infected that the infected spy,As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Crit

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

Sela Ward

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Graham Greene

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Mason Cooley

Vision -- It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier

I hate birthdays.

Zane Grey

Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.

Ralph Vaughan Williams