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.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

Abraham Lincoln

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

Ani DiFranco

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.

Steve Wozniak

Miss Mary, having been a journalist, had splendid powers of invention. I had never heard her tell a story in the same way twice and always had the feeling she was remolding it for the later editions.

Ernest Hemingway

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Louise J. Kaplan

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Kent Nerburn

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Marianne Moore

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

Kristen Wiig

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Penelope Cruz

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'

Dylan McDermott

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalier