If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Leon Spinks

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

Emily Procter

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Louis L'Amour

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

Marshall McLuhan

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Lou Reed

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Robert Collier

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

Joan Rivers

I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.''Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish?

John Green

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Connie Sellecca

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Donna Shalala

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

David Herbert Lawrence

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty

R. S. Thomas