In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Colin Farrell

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

Ben Hogan

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Henry Miller

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Mindy Kaling

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

Mayim Bialik

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

Robert Reich

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Plato

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

Walter Lippmann

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

Neil Peart