It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

Barbara Mikulski

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

Will Rogers

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Douglas Sirk

As I never tire of saying, heat is not the antithesis of light but rather the source of it.

Christopher Hitchens

I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.

Ken Jenkins

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

Mitt Romney

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

One who swims with the tide and not the other side will benefit from the opportunity that flows.

Stephen Richards

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

John Philip Sousa

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Josh Billings