My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. Nora Ephron
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Nora Ephron
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? Virginia Woolf
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. Virginia Woolf
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. Virginia Woolf
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. Virginia Woolf
I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places. Philip Caputo
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Louis E.Boone
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. Louis E.Boone
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. Ken Harrelson
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all. Lou Gehrig