A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Charles Schumer

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Dickens

New York is a sucked orange.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

Jennifer Granholm

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Charles Barkley

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply

Samuel Johnson

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

Cassandra Clare

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Salman Rushdie

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

Brooke Burke

I asked my wife if she would put out the garbage. She said...Why should I... you never put out for me.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

Taylor Swift