Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

Miroslav Vitous

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ne

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

Gertrude Jekyll

Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.

Edmund Morrison

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Adam Carolla

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

Daniel Dae Kim

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Pope Francis

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Thomas Fuller

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

William Hazlitt