I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

Esther Williams

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

Andy Cohen

Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

Tom Ford

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

George William Curtis

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Barack Obama

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

John Berry

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Erma Bombeck

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

Zinedine Zidane

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

Harlan Coben