I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Source Unknown

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

James Baldwin

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Harvey S. Firestone

You never know how short a month is until you pay alimony.

John Barrymore

I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.

Amy Klobuchar

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

Terry Pratchett

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Karl Lagerfeld

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

Lisa See

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Alfred Hitchcock

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

George Carlin

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson