I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

Fantasia Barrino

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Luigi Pirandello

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

Ingrid Newkirk

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

Stephen Harper

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B.: This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.

William Congreve

.. questions that had begun to creep into her thoughts whenever they we're together. When would he be ready? Would he ever be ready? And of course, why he wasn't ready?..

Nicholas Sparks

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Charles Lamb

O woman, perfect woman! what distractionWas meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

John Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Phyllis McGinley