if you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

Despite decades of market research, markets proliferate andthere's no cure in sight.

Steven Wright

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

Kyle Chandler

I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

Lauren Graham

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Oprah Winfrey

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Charles Stross

Just because life is inelegant doesn't mean we have to behave likewise.

Francoise Sagan

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

Jesse Jackson

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Don't think, just do.

Reiko Horton

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

Thomas Kempis

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Karl Rahner

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Japanese Proverb