Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart courageexactgrant Change image and share on social
Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me. Ann Rinaldi americaboycome share on social
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. Anita Loos americaamericanbillion Change image and share on social
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Arnold J. Toynbee aimambitiousgoal Change image and share on social
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. A. E. Waite aptitudebusinesscanon share on social
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. Ani DiFranco baddayescape share on social
When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter. Alexander Ludwig actagentaudition share on social
I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me. Agnes Bruckner funincrediblylife Change image and share on social
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then. Alan Ladd actentiregeorge Change image and share on social
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be. Alberto Moravia choiceexperienceexternal share on social