No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

David Byrne

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

Shannen Doherty

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Iris Murdoch

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Sydney Smiles

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Julia Roberts

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Michael O'Brien

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Meg Whitman

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

Julie Bowen

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.

Daniel Black