I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.

Roman Payne

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Marcelene Cox

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

James T. Mccay

To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental.

Christopher Hitchens

I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

Mark Twain

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Orson Scott Card

Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell, essay, 1942

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Herbert Read

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Maya Angelou