The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.

Matt Emmons

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

J. August Strindberg

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

Tina Louise

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

Shirley MacLaine

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Sir Alec Issigonis, The Guardian

One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin.

Mark Twain

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Arthur Helps

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Suzanne Fields

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Aly Khan

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

Flavor Flav

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Kristin Kreuk