Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.

If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.

Evanescence

. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form?

Giacomo Puccini, from Talks with

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

Vince Carter

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Karen Kakascik

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

Ed Koch

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

Bill Wilson

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Kristen Wiig

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

Kenny Cunningham

I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.

Kurt Busch

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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