There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Soon enough, Miner stopped caring who was watching - for a brief time, he and Ennek were a universe of two.

Kim Fielding

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

Tim Heidecker

I've got your picture that you gave to meand it's signed with lovejust like it used to bethe only thing different, the only thing newI've got your picture and he's got you.

George Bedard

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Norman Vincent Peale

Let the path be open to talent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Emile Zola

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Jorge Luis Borges

Religion is a mixed blessing.

John Shelby Spong

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

Jerry B. Jenkins