I don't believe in smart and stupid. But I do believe in those who try and does who don't.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Robert Orben

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Lady Gaga

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

Camille Anna Paglia

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Donna Rice

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

Johnson, who defines as 'metrical composition', defines as 'An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure'. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing this with the Shorter Oxford Dictionary which, after a definition very like Johnson's, feels obligated to add 'A writer in verse (or sometimes in elevated prose) distinguished by imaginative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression'.

C.S. Lewis

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

F. Lee Bailey