It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Jim DeMint

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

Charles Kuralt

Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.

Cassandra Clare

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

Aeschylus

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C. S. Lewis

The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.

George Bernard Shaw

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

Daniel Amory

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

Ovid

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

Ed Markey

...the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.

David Hewson

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Victor Hugo