Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Bobby Jindal

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

Scott Caan

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

Dakota Fanning

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I wrote a poem to the moon But no one noticed it;Although I hoped that late or soonSomeone would praise a bitIts purity and grace forlone,Its beauty tulip-cool...But as my poem died still-born,I felt a fool.I wrote a verse of vulgar trendSpiced with an oath or two;I tacked a snapper at the endAnd called it Dan McGrew.I spouted it to bar-room boys,Full fifty years away;Yet still with rude and ribald noiseIt lives today.'Tis bitter truth, but there you are-That's how a name is made;Write of a rose, a lark, a star,You'll never make the grade.But write of gutter and of grime,Of pimp and prostitute,The multitude will read your rhyme,And pay to boot.So what's the use to burn and bleedAnd strive for beauty's sake?No one your poetry will read,Your heart will only break.But set your song in vulgar pitch,If rhyme you will not rue,And make your heroine a bitch...Like Lady Lou.

Robert William Service, My Cross

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Napoleon Hill

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

Diane Arbus, From class lectures

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Thucydides

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Robert Kiyosaki

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

Yani Tseng

You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!

C.S. Lewis

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

Nancy Gibbs