Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

Natan Sharansky

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

Kate Bosworth

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Paul Ryan

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

Calvin Trillin

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Anthony Doerr

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Vince Lombardi

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

Steve Wozniak

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

P. J. O'Rourke

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.

Heinrich Heine

Writing poetry is a state of free float

Margaret Atwood