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People who choose to earn money first, people who put off their real plans until later, until they are rich, are not necessarily wrong. People who want only to live, and who reckon living is absolute freedom, the exclusive pursuit of happiness, the sole satisfaction of their desires and instincts, the immediate enjoyment of the boundless riches of the world [ ... ] such people will always be unhappy. It is true [ ... ] that there are people for whom this kind of dilemma does not arise, or hardly arises, either because they are too poor and have no requirements beyond a slightly better diet, slightly better housing, slightly less work, or because they are too rich, from the start, to understand the import or even the meaning of such a distinction. But nowadays and in our part of the world, more and more people are neither rich nor poor: they dream of wealth, and could become wealthy; and that is where their misfortunes begin."
-from "Things: A Story of the Sixties — Georges Perec

The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does. — Terry Wogan

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace. — Mick Jagger

... still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life ... — Donna Tartt

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way. — Jennifer Aniston

Let your feelings flow and the scribbled words stay as a sovereign of the moment. — Somya Kedia

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes. — Freida Pinto

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society. — Ilana Mercer

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table. — Richelle Mead

And even though quick hookups were all I'd ever been capable of, I would've given her more if she had wanted that.
I would've given her everything if she had asked.
It would probably never be enough, and I knew I couldn't undo everything I had done in the past. I couldn't go back and change the fact that I'd been with all those girls, that Syd had seen me take home one girl after another, but damn, if she had asked, I would've told her that my feelings for her ran deep. — J. Lynn

It is about what you do when nobody is watching. Can you always stay on your grind, or are you only a star when the lights are on you and everybody is watching? — Ian Warner