As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Mary Daly

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

Ashley Benson

Make haste slowly.

Proverb

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Walter Lord

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Albert Einstein

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

Trevor Dunn

Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance, as soon as the curtain opens, they move into unknown territory together, creating something new each time by remaining in a state of undivided presence.

Donna Quesada

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Raymond Chandler

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Eric Alterman

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George Orwell

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

Camille Anna Paglia