I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

Ismail Haniyeh

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Haruki Murakami

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.

John Olver

A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dori

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Sophocles

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Jean de la Bruyere

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

Juliana Hatfield

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before

Jane Austen

I went into journalism because I like to be a translator from English to English.

Thomas Friedman

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

Michael Crichton

Being in love has the same effect as being on drugs.

Natalie Ansard