As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Nathan Deal

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

Julia Roberts

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

Bernard Baruch

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Quentin Crisp

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Sam Shepard

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

Felicity Huffman

She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.

Orson Scott Card

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way.

Christopher Hitchens

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Voltaire