“In Hollywood, you just kind of fail upwards.”

“The way to a man's heart is through his stomach… just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

“There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

“You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, "I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer," that kind of Hollywood nonsense.”

John C. Reilly (1965) American actor

“Renaissance Italy became a kind of Hollywood collection of sets of antiquity, and the new visual antiquarianism of the Renaissance provided an avenue to power for men of any class.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“Here's to opening and upward…
and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“"Why did you fail me? I didn't do nothing!" The reply, of course, is: "That's just it."”

Bel Kaufmanová book Up the Down Staircase

“If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel just like the kind a drug store would sell
When you reach the part where the heart aches come the hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again because the endings just too hard to take..”

Gordon Lightfoot (1938) Canadian singer-songwriter