The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Charles Schumer

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.

Michael Pollan

On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

A.E. Housman

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

Martin Luther

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

Karl Lagerfeld

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Henry Louis Gates

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

John Keats

Just For Today...Take a vow to do something that will help inspire

Timothy Pina

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Minnie Driver