I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Anne Lamott

My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band, travel and end up with a bit of money, but I'm still nowhere near that point. Because I didn't have a band and fan base when I started, I did everything backward.

Teddy Thompson

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

Donald Norman

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Heinrich Heine

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Johann von Goethe

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

E. M. Forster

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elbert Hubbard

But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from point A to point B at 30 knots. That's not American democracy. American democracy is kind of like a life raft that bobs around the ocean all the time. Your feet are always wet. Winds are always blowing. You're cold. You're wet. You're uncomfortable -- but you never sink.

Colin Powell

She was so fat that she has a dress with a sign on the back that says caution wide load

Rodney Dangerfield

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

Abraham Lincoln

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Kahlil Gibran

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

Theodore Sturgeon