Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

Nathalia Crane

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

Lindsey Shaw

Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.

Marcia Vaughan

He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have to eat.

Kurt Vonnegut

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Connie Sellecca

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

For someone who is supposed to be a knight in shining armor, you're acting like an ass in aluminum foil.

Lisa Logue

The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

H. L. Mencken

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Addams

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

Steven Hatfill