I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.

I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

Taylor Momsen

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Alexander Herzen

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

Sheryl Crow

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Richard Milhous Nixon

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

Dakota Fanning

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

Anne Lamott

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Baltasar Gracian

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann von Goethe

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ralph Ellison

O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo

William Shakespeare

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Tony Blair

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Erma Bombeck