Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Mark Twain

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

Cat Cora

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Salma Hayek

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

Chinese Proverb

The nod means 'I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass.

Cassandra Clare

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Horace, Odes, 15

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Godfrey Reggio

That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality

Emily Dickinson

What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

Aldous Huxley

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Gabrielle Zevin