I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Condoleezza Rice

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Annie Dillard

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.

Helen Rowland

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

John Ruskin

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Robert Rodriguez

Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

Naomi Watts

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seas

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

Bernard Mandeville

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Linda Hunt

Music fathoms the sky.

Charles Baudelaire

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes