If you're gonna take the audience on a life long ride, you've got to allow them to become intimate with you. If they're not intimate, they're never gonna know you.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

John Ruskin

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

C.S. Lewis

How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.

Dan Reiland

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

Bob Dylan

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Edward Appleton

I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

Orson Scott Card

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

E. M. Forster

If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right

Murray N. Rothbard

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

Salma Hayek

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Terry Pratchett