A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Shaun White

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

Dakota Fanning

Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin helping them. Such a world does not exist -- never has.

Gerda Lerner

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Mika Brzezinski

?There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. ?

Stephen King

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

E. B. White

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Mark Twain

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Henry Fielding

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Edsger Dijkstra

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

Mark Twain

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life

Ramakrishna

Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann von Goethe