When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

John Thune

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Barry Mann

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Karel Capek

Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.

Albanian Proverb

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.

Erma Bombeck

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Annie Lennox

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

Rachel Bilson

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Denis Waitley

Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children

John Green

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Sophocles

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

Mike Royko