At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

Writing a book is like having a very long illness.-- George OrwellNot. -- Scott Archer Jones

George Orwell

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

Cicely Tyson

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Daniel Libeskind

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Joel Osteen

There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.

Albert Camus

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

Joey Santiago

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

Heidi Klum

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Lauren Bacall

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.

Georg Simmel

Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit.

Mark Allen Smith