I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Jr. Murchison

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

Charles Dickens

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

Hal Clement

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Barbara Ehrenreich

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There's always a source for humor.

Calvin Trillin

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Miguel de Cervantes

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Theodore Parker

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Stephen King

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

Wentworth Miller