How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

When God was creating fathers, He started with a tall frame. An angel nearby said, What kind of father is that? If you

Erma Bombeck, attributed

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

Ice Cube

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

Knute Nelson

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Paul Ryan

Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.

Maggi Richard

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

Gregory Hines

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

Levon Helm

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Meryl Streep

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Francis Ford Coppola

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

Mae West

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

Kevin Richardson