It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

I had a lot of pimples too. One day I fell asleep in the library. I woke up and a blind man was reading my face.

Rodney Dangerfield

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Karen Armstrong

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.

Daniel Webster

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Kin Hubbard

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Tim Berners-Lee

A house divided cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.

Patty Murray

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Emma Goldman

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

Nana Mouskouri

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Toby Young

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Aberjhani