Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Stephen King

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.

Deb Caletti

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

John McGahern

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Irene Peter

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Walt Disney

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Graham Greene

All concord's born of contraries.

Ben Jonson

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

Mika Brzezinski

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Toni Cade Bambara

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

Jenny McCarthy

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel, recorded in Pirkei