My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

Virginia Woolf

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Dave Barry

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Buffalo Bill

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Marcus Aurelius

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

William G. Dyer

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

Leighton Meester

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.

Ann Robinson

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

Joe Barton