I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Luciano Pavarotti

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful.

Sarah Brightman

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Robert Southey

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.

Mark Kelly

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Johann von Goethe

I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.

Johnny Knoxville

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Jason Mraz

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Michael Lewis

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Sargent Shriver