Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 61
I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.
Gene Wilder
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.
James Rollins
I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.
Michael Skolnik
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor
Be courageous and keep moving forward"... that's kind of the mantra that I've tried to keep.
Jesse Brock
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
Bill Janklow
It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.
Michael Josephson
When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.
Justin Bartha
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
Ron Perlman
Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly
Joe Orton
There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
Laurence Sterne
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
Richard Owen
We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.
Steve Gleason
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.
