I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Juvenal

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

Whitley Strieber

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

John Sununu

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Italian Proverb

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics o

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Alice Walker

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

Audre Lorde

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Dame Edith Sitwell

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland

I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.

Rodney Dangerfield

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

Robert Owen