"If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived."

--

Gloria Swanson

“I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.”
“Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.”
“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”
“You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.”
“It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.”
“A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.”
“Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?â€™ She said, â€˜Well, Dad, theyâ€™re round and theyâ€™re messy. But thatâ€™s what makes them fun. Once we get older weâ€™re not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when youâ€™re eating a Valomilk, itâ€™s okay to be messy again.”

Source : Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.190, Algonquin Books
“Until you know who you are you canâ€™t write.”

You may also like:

Billy Wilder
Filmmaker
Cecil B. DeMille
Film director
Clara Bow
Film actress
Erich von Stroheim
Film director
Lillian Gish
Actress
Louise Brooks
Dancer
Mary Pickford
Actress
Rudolph Valentino
Actor
William Holden
Actor