I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

Amanda Seyfried

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

Fanny Crosby

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow.

Emily Miller

Every day, the hummingbird eats its own weight in food. You maywonder how it weighs the food. It doesn't. It just eatsanother hummingbird.

Steven Wright

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Peter Drucker

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

Steven Wright

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.

James Maslow

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

Courteney Cox

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Theresa

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

Darryl F. Zanuck