Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Barbara Feldon

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

Timothy Olyphant

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.

Carrie-Anne Moss

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Audre Lorde

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Karl Jaspers

I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave

Andrew Fletcher, WorksLetters to

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Laurence J. Peter

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

Rita Williams-Garcia

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Joseph Weizenbaum

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Samuel Johnson

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Bayard Rustin