I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Daniel Keys Moran

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

Jewel

Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Shirin Ebadi

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

Virginia Woolf

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

Joni Mitchell

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Paul Feig

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

M.C. Beaton

I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

Brittany Snow

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Marissa Mayer

Like all philosophers, Aristotle gives words the definitions which will be most useful for his own purpose

C.S. Lewis