Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

Vince Cable

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

Rob Simmons

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

Bill Murray

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

Jules Renard

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Jane Siberry

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Ryan Murphy

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Norman Mailer

Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Confucius