It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Alan Autry

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

Finley Peter Dunne

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

Taylor Kitsch

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

Nicholas Sparks

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

Seamus Heaney

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

Source Unknown

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

Marco Rubio

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Carlos Ghosn

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

John Grisham

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Sir Winston Churchill

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

Henry L. Stimson

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Tertullian