Funny Upbuilding Quotes

#1. Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.

Isabel Paterson

#2. I really hate to write.

Jack Kerouac

#3. You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Gary Ross

#4. The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#5. I'm not adopting a baby.

Cynthia Nixon

#6. If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

Anne Rice

#8. I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

Scoot McNairy

#9. If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#10. We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.

William J. Clinton

#11. It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

Barack Obama