I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

Rusty Berkus

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

Mstislav Rostropovich

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

Dean Koontz

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Roy Scheider

I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.

Kesha

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Herbert Spencer

I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.

Joan Rivers

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Nicola Abbagnano

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

Andrew Bird

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Al Boliska