It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Publilius Syrus

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Khaleda Zia

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Barbara de Angelis

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

Mary Steenburgen

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

John Huston

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Larry Bird

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

Ricky Martin

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

John Bacon

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

Julie Walters

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

Jeff Goodell

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

William Lyon Phelps