Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

If you cant ignore an insult top it if you cant top it laugh it off and if you cant laugh it off its probably deserved.

A truly appreciative child will break lose spoil or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after hes dead then maybe he was a great man.

After 'The Orphanage' and 'The Impossible,' 'A Monster Calls' is the perfect final chapter in a trilogy centred on the extraordinary strength of the mother-child bond.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

There are enough no smoking places now.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

We all wish that we could be more productive.

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

There is no harm in trying... Trying improves your skills, enhances your stamina and encourages you to excel. Give it a try... Even in trying moments, keep trying. You will never regret it!

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week theyre three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.

My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

It is within the team structure utilizing problem solving skills that each team member presents their personal and unique skill that enhances or makes up for a skill that may not be possessed by one of the other team members.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That's how it came to be known as the KISS Army.