The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

Barbara Corcoran

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

Robert Plant

But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

Carrie Underwood

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Colin Quinn

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard

Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain

A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

John A. Lincoln

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Eliot Spitzer

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Dame Edith Sitwell

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

Morgan Matson