When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

Vera Wang

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

Sinclair Lewis

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Eddie Slovik

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

David Millar

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Thomas C. Haliburton

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

Bindi Irwin

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Claire Danes

...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

J.K. Rowling

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

John Green

Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about that. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like.

Maggie Stiefvater

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton, attributed,