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Les Brown: You may not...

Les Brown: You may not...

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after...

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Spencer Tracy: Know your lines...

Spencer Tracy: Know your lines...

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Source: Favorite advice to young...

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Spencer Tracy: Concentrate, don't embroider....

Spencer Tracy: Concentrate, don't embroider....

Concentrate, don't embroider.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Luigi Pirandello: A fact is...

Luigi Pirandello: A fact is...

A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the...

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Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...

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George Moses Horton: Oh! that my...

George Moses Horton: Oh! that my...

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of...

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Delmore Schwartz: Even paranoids have...

Delmore Schwartz: Even paranoids have...

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Source:
-- Delmore Schwartz, ( 1913-1966),...

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Alexander Smith: To be occasionally...

Alexander Smith: To be occasionally...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Source: Dreamthorp,...

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Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Women have no wilderness in them
They are provident instead
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To...

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Miguel de Cervantes: Tis the part...

Miguel de Cervantes: Tis the part...

'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one...

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John Fletcher: Love is like...

John Fletcher: Love is like...

Love is like linen often changed, the sweeter.

Source: Sicelides, III. v
-- John...

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Witter Bynner: Words came out...

Witter Bynner: Words came out...

Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: All human actions...

Jean-Paul Sartre: All human actions...

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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Robert Louis Stevenson: Our business in...

Robert Louis Stevenson: Our business in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the...

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August Wilson: Style ain't nothing...

August Wilson: Style ain't nothing...

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

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Eugene O'Neill: This is Daddy's...

Eugene O'Neill: This is Daddy's...

This is Daddy's bedtime secret for today: Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is...

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Aristophanes: Wise people, even...

Aristophanes: Wise people, even...

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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Edward Albee: What people really...

Edward Albee: What people really...

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

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Adam Smith: The real price...

Adam Smith: The real price...

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble...

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