Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.

Neshialy S.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

Richard Livingstone

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Tobias Wolff

Let us do or die.

Robert Burns

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

Marty Meehan

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

Kirk Gibson

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

Jerry Seinfeld

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

Jo Nesbo

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Mignon McLaughlin