Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them. Hence the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative; then become evaluative, while still retaining some hint of the sort of goodness or badness implied; and to end up by being purely evaluative -- useless synonyms for or for .

C.S. Lewis

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

Marie Osmond

The best director is the one you don't see.

Billy Wilder

My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.

Rick Perry

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

Demetri Martin

A man well-known to be a liar had just told a most improbable story. Sir, while I believe you, someone said, you must admit that it's very wrong of truth not to condescend to be more plausible.

Nicolas Chamfort

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

Nicholson Baker

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

Corey Feldman

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Karl A. Menninger

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Jack Kerouac

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Julia Sweeney