I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

Mary Shelley

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Ray Manzarek

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Tori Amos

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Julie Walters

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

Debbie Harry

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Murray Walker

I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Rihanna

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Deepak Chopra

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Abraham Lincoln

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

Andrea Dworkin

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

Larry David