I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Charles E. Popplestone

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'

Shirley Chisholm

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Ruby Dee

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

John Tenniel

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

Rebecca Skloot

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Pamela Anderson

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

Merton Miller

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

Sir Winston Churchill

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Thomas Carlyle

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anatole France