My life has been one long descent into respectability.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale;

Mahatma Gandhi

Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.

Source Unknown

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.

Leighton Meester

I looked out my apartment window, and I saw a bird wearingsneakers and a button saying, I ain't flying no where. Isaid, What's your problem buddy? He said, I'm sick of thisstuff winter here, summer there, winter here, summer there.I don't know who thought this stuff up, but it certainly wasn'ta bird. I said, Well, I was just making breakfast, come onin. Want some eggs? Sorry.

Steven Wright

The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true

A. Dragonblood

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.

Tina Turner

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

Joan Jett

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly in the only heritage he has to leave.

Ernest Hemingway

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Barbara Pym