I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

Emily Procter

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

Andrew Cohen

True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess.

Ogwo David Emenike

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

Daniel Radcliffe

When I was born..the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father...I'm very sorry. We did everything we could...but he pulled through.

Rodney Dangerfield

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Patrick Ness

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

Linda Evangelista

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Groucho Marx

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Dido Armstrong

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

T. S. Eliot

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

William S. Burroughs