I brought you some coffee. he held out the cup but she waved it away.I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet.At that he smiled. How would you know what feet taste like?I just know.-Luke and Clary, pg.209-

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

Paula Deen

This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.

Ambrose Bierce

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

Source Unknown

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

Matt LeBlanc

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

Mark Twain

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Sam Rayburn

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Frank A. Clark

To say I accept in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

George Orwell

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jesse Jackson

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

W. H. Sheldon

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Orson Scott Card