I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

Donna Shalala

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

Dee Dee Myers

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Henry David Thoreau

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Erica Jong

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Samuel Johnson

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Augusta Jane Evans

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable

Plato

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Paulo Coelho

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Mary Wesley