Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

Jennifer Granholm

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Albert Einstein

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Ally Carter

Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.

J.K. Rowling

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I never ask boys' opinions on clothes, ever. I really think, unless you think the guy has style, don't ask. So I only ask my girl friends. I don't trust guys' opinions on style!

Emma Roberts

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

Chris Hemsworth

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

Mark Twain

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

Jose Mourinho

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

Newt Gingrich

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Sir Winston Churchill