I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Miley Cyrus

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Carol Burnett

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey, In Face (London),

Live each day with more peace, passion, energy, and joy.

Sheri Kaye Hoff

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

Emeril Lagasse

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.

Dr. Carl Sagan

Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

Lord Byron

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Jane Austen

If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.

Sun Tzu

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Bill Gates

Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.

J.K. Rowling