The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Sue Townsend

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Ayn Rand

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's check-books.

Silas Weir Mitchell

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

Ted Danson

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Edward Young

Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.

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It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

Shania Twain

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

David Byrne

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.

Scott Brooks

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower