Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

Adriana Lima

I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

Melanie Fiona

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

Stephen Harper

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Robert Jackson

The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

Kenneth H. Cooper

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Carla Bruni

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Clarence Clemons

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin

Mark Twain

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

John Dryden

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Charles Franklin Kettering

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Mahatma Gandhi