Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and balements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

Hair is another name for sex.

Vidal Sassoon

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

Janet Evanovich

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

Johnny Vegas

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Nicola Foulston

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

George Bernard Shaw

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lucinda Williams

I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person.

John Green

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

When you care about situations or people, you're hopeful that things will get better. When you worry about them, you're afraid they won't.

Donna Labermeier