I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

George Bernard Shaw

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Sarah McLachlan

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

Kurt Vonnegut

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

William R. Alger

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Jonathan Kozol

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive -- and it still informs other kinds of music.

David Byrne

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Robert Millikan

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

William Ellery Channing

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.

Madeleine Albright

Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

Nicholas Sparks