The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

Emily Murphy

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Leni Riefenstahl

You change with the guys you date.

Jessica Simpson

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

William Shakespeare

And he who loves last loves loudest.

Edmund Cooper

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.

Ambrose Bierce

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Marilyn Monroe

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Ferdinand De Saussure

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Walter Gilbert