There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
James Russell Lowell

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. Mencken

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor Swift

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott Fitzgerald

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.
Mitt Romney