I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Jimmy Carl Black

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Andy Grove

I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

Chad Harbach

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Cassandra Clare

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Jeanette Winterson

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

Michael Parenti

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Ambroise Valery

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

Melissa Bean