Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. – Charles Horton Cooley Category: Art
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them. – Blaise Pascal Category: Art
TV is a fickle business. Im only good for the length of my contract. – Tom Brokaw Category: Television
We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Pulvis et umbra,” 1888 Category: Miscellaneous
Pray look better, Sir… those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. – Miguel de Cervantes Category: Illusion
My mom just didnt put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. – Martha Plimpton Category: famous