Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

Ever notice that people never say It's only a game when they're winning?

Ivern Ball

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

J.K. Rowling

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

David Byrne

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Nate Silver

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

Dennis Rodman

Charitably...I think...Sometimes perhaps one must change or die. And in the end, there were perhaps limits to how much he could let himself change.

Neil Gaiman

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

David Arquette

I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out his house and got him to get a new car. He said to me, 'If I give you $10,000, will you find me my wife because I want someone like you?' And within a year, he got married. That was the first match that led to me leaving my corporate job.

Patti Stanger

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

Rick Perry

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe