Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

Albert Low

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Victor Hugo

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Jason Derulo

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Emily Bronte

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

Eric Burdon

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Willy Brandt

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Barbara Deming

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

Mandy RiceDavies

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolo Machiavelli