If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

Kristi Yamaguchi

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Max Eastman

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

Frank Serafini

Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Ambrose Bierce

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

Bob Kane

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

Trent Lott

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

Drew Barrymore

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

Jenny Eclair

The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

Mark Twain

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Mitt Romney

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Samuel Hoffenstein