I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.

Martina Navratilova, Martina Nav

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock F

You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.

Margaret Drabble

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Warren Buffett

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

Gijs de Vries

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

Frances Mayes

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

Zinedine Zidane

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Mos Def

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

Robert Atkins