When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.

Billy Ray Chitwood

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

Peter Jennings

His eyes twinkled mischievously as he gazed at me with that look that always made me melt: as if I were edible and he could barely restrain himself from taking a bite.

Amy Plum

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.

Vance Havner

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

John H. Johnson

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Paul Gauguin

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot

All good science is art. And all good art is science.

John Fowles

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.

Toba Beta

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf