I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

Rick Springfield

With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.

Alfred Glossbrenner

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.

John Paul Warren

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

Christopher Atkins

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.

Rosa Luxemburg

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.

Joseph Jarman

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

Dee Dee Myers

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

Jeanne DuPrau