My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. Id been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14. – Lisa Loeb
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living. – Graham Norton
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. – Kenneth G. Wilson
