girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those in the know assured me that they were beautiful.

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:--Politics without principle.--Wealth without work.--Commerce without morality.--Pleasure without conscience.--Education without character.--Science without humility.--Worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

No, sir, th dimmycratic party aint on speakin terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an th other hisses Miscreent ye can bet theyre two dimmycratic leaders thryin to reunite th gran ol party.

Finley Peter Dunne

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Loretta Lynn

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

Margaret Mead

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Jean Piaget

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do.

Dougray Scott

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Tina Weymouth

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Jane Austen

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

David Spade

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Seamus Heaney

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Whitney Houston