Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

Orson Scott Card

Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.

Ginnifer Goodwin

That which costs little is less valued.

Miguel de Cervantes

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

Zoe Saldana

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

William Banting

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Robert Plant

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence (dans leur essence, Fr.) religious.

African Spir

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

Ron Wyden

Your mind can grasp intellectual ideas, but it is in the FEELING where the transformation takes place.

Stephen Richards

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

J.K. Rowling

As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Henry David Thoreau