I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

She wiped the black spillingfrom her eyelashes onto her cheek,and in that moment, I wanted, Ineeded, for magic to exist.I wanted to peel back her lonelyskin and feel her sadness starestraight into the blue inside my eyes.I wanted and I needed it to know,that I, I loved her too, and my godI, I would fight for her.

Christopher Poindexter

I was always a junk food person, still am.

Dolly Parton

I want to be famous everywhere.

Luciano Pavarotti

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Aulis Sallinen

We have limited knowledge, or else science and philosophy would not be necessary.

Ivan Urlaub

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Richard Dreyfuss

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

Emilio Estevez

Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.

Stephen King

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.

David Puttnam

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Isaac Asimov

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Albert Einstein

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Carolyn Coats