Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

Harold Brodkey

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

A. J. Jacobs

Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

That's life when you're on the D-list.

Kathy Griffin

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Philip James Bailey

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Charles Dickens

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Seth Lloyd

She loved right from the first sight

Geoffrey Chaucer

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

Sachin Tendulkar

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Herbert Spencer

We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

Donna Lynn Hope