Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

Ali Landry

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Barbara Kingsolver

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

It's not easy to define poetry.

Bob Dylan

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

Grace Hopper

Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

Ambrose Bierce

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Abraham Lincoln

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Charles Browder

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

Steve Albini

I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Jane Austen

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich