Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

Terry Pratchett

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

Susie Bright

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

Cameron Diaz

There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

Jodi Picoult

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Mary Kay Ash

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Edgar Allan Poe

How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.

Orson Scott Card

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Rebecca Harding Davis

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

Regis Philbin

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Sinclair Lewis

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless -- and absolutely essential.

William Goldman