Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

Passion should burn hot, or what good is it to anyone?

Val Edward Simone

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

Sheryl Crow

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Leighton Meester

That was cool and that sucked all at the same time.

Adam Savage

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

Andrea Dworkin

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

Source Unknown

The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewis

Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

Linda Evangelista

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Chris Martin

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazon Aquino