| "The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy." Oscar Wilde |
| "If you think you can't then you won't and if you think you can then you will." Thulani Mkhize |
| "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." Edgar Degas |
| "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean." Robert Louis Stevenson |
| "Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus." David Hockney |
| "Most women's magazines simply try to mould women into bigger and better consumers." Gloria Steinem |
| "The paper burns, but the words fly away." Akiba ben Joseph |
| "The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing." Ralph Richardson |
| "Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke |
| "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith |
| "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker |
| "If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" Vince Lombardi |
| "The internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor." John Allen Paulos |
| "Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area." Nadine Gordimer |
| "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland |
| "The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit." Eric Porterfield |
| "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." Maya Angelou |
| "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." Ezra Pound |
| "Never judge a book by its movie." J.W. Eagan |
| "There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave." Dale Carnegie |
| "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." Mr Weasly, character in the Harry Potter series of books by J.K. Rowling |
| "Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary." Kahlil Gibran |
| "At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other." Ann Landers |
| "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." Twyla Tharp |
| "After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world." Pam Shaw |
| "Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes." John LeCarre |
| "I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch." Gilda Radner |
| "No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers." Marshall McLuhan |
| "The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial." Leonard Bernstein |
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