For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Alexander Pope

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

Joe Flanigan

It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

Sarah Addison Allen

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Eddie Rickenbacher

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

Arthur Blank

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

David Rockefeller

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Marcus Aurelius

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

Thia Megia

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

John Tudor

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

Rick Springfield

There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright