Quotes of the day, February 8

You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.

Gary Speed

• Believe
• Game
• You

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

Gary Cherone Van Halen

• Trying
• Voice
• Guitar

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Laura Carmichael

• People
• You
• Play

You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

Amy Poehler

• People
• Good
• Real

Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

Cameron Mathison

• Family
• Happy
• Night

If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

Floyd Skloot

• Mind
• Why
• Car