I became a cartoonist because I’d sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. – Michael Leunig
I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. – Lydia Millet
Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings – I was taking anatomy classes – but unfortunately I wasn’t able to do it because of the time element. – Joe Shuster
No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn’t there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn’t there. – Leonard Lauder
I used to say, ‘Are you kidding?’ about some prices for collectibles. I don’t anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible. – Judith Miller
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. – Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Belief is such a powerful thing – but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it’s very easily manipulated. – Jena Malone
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. – Lynn Nottage
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I knew there was something about ‘Sun Medallion,’ in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it. – King Tuff
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won’t kill your corn because it’s producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide. – Jeremy Rifkin
Don’t let that weapon technology proliferate. Don’t let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he’s already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal. – John Sununu
I’m not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn’t write them today because of my religion. – Louise Mensch
I used Vamps as a casting couch! I pretty much did, because I was casting ‘L!fe Happens’ while I was on the set of Vamps, and anybody I had ever worked with, I asked to be in this movie. – Krysten Ritter
Because of this the representation I’m interested in is of those things only the eye can touch. – Kenneth Noland
