The Huge Playroom That Is Nature Quotes & Sayings

Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end. — Paulo Coelho

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women. — Laurence J. Peter

Life's too short to be working with divas. — Richard O'Brien

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants. — Anthony Hopkins

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. — Beau Bridges

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan. — Cecelia Ahern

My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside; and, with all its elements alike, every sphere is opaque to the others which surround it ... In brief, regarded as an existence which appears in a soul, the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul. — T. S. Eliot

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you. — Chris Colfer

When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together in Blackheath. It was brilliant being 16 and living in London with my mates. — Sheridan Smith

There'll be the lightning bugs with their Morse code display,
And shooting stars and constellations to befriend;
The dragonflies will keep us from going astray,
As we search for new adventures 'round every bend.
-excerpted from the poem 'The Huge Playroom that is Nature' in the book FROM GUAM TO CROWN CITY CORONADO (THANKS TO HERMANN, MISSOURI): A JOURNEY IN POESY — Mariecor Ruediger

You gotta be both flexible and persistent. — Reid Hoffman

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian. — Ted Danson

Please restrain your commentary on the furniture. — Holly Black

You have to factor in the human propensity for simplification, Sverl, and for their inability to believe in their own demise and unimportance. It's the impulse behind the religions - — Neal Asher

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil. — Hermann Hesse

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true. — Margaret Heffernan