Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
Robert E. Lee
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
Robert Pinsky
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Annie Leibovitz
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
Connie Nielsen
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
Peter James