My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Waste

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Aristotle

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Anacreon

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

Lee Ann Womack

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

James Spader

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

Ayn Rand, (interview), "Playboy"

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Ernest Hemingway

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

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