Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

The people don't take baths and they don't speak English. No golf courses, no room service. Who needs it?

I think you're put here on earth to enjoy yourself. And I'm doing that.

I just lay in my room for days ... weeks.

The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesnt know squat.

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.” “Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.