Dwalin Thorin Quotes

#1. Tap dancing is something I love, and I've been working on it to get really good.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#2. I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

Amy Waldman

#3. Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Doug Stanhope

#4. At the Emmys, you've got a bunch of people who are used to being on TV on TV. You don't have that at the Oscars. At the Oscars, you have people who are used to having 40 takes.

Jimmy Kimmel

#5. Sometimes it's better just to think things through than to talk about them all the time.

Catherine Clark

#6. I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone ... it's a joke!

Kathy Griffin

#7. Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

Viggo Mortensen

#9. Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.

Dave Winfield

#10. The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

Richard Virenque

#11. An optimist sees the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Brain, character, soul - only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. You always worry and you always fear what's next. But you eventually just push forward knowing you can't really do much about getting rid of the anxiety. You see people get pets after their kids leave the house because they're so used to having something around to dote on and worry about.

Drew Magary

#14. The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

David O. Russell