William Lyon Phelps Quotes

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

William Lyon Phelps

Quotes to Explore

When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

Harlan Coben
- Good
- Why
- Pretty
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Jacob Bronowski
- Life
- Up
- Time
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

Dan Brown
- Different
- Writing
- Trying
When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

Haile Gebrselassie
- You
- Promise
- Something
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

Samuel Daniel
- World
- Few
- Ear
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

Vincent D'Onofrio
- Work
- Trying
- Stop