I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Truman Capote

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
Quentin Tarantino

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
Georgia O'Keeffe

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
Dean Koontz

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
J. K. Rowling

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.
Roald Dahl

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
Yo-Yo Ma

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
Davy Crockett

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.
Princess Diana

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
J. Robert Oppenheimer

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
Meryl Streep