I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music.

Quietly...softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love.

Shawntel Jefferson

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Sophocles

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

Adam Lambert

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Madeleine Albright

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.

Kathy Griffin

You defeated me But you won't defeat me again Because you have grown all you can grow.... but I am still growing (about Mount Everest).

Edmund Hillary

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

E. M. Forster

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

Kristen Bell