Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

Samantha Barks

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Clarence Darrow

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

George Andrew Olah

Marriage used to be bondage and still is in some places. That's disconcerting.

James Dye

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

William Allen White

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.

Proverb

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

Edward Hopper

In the broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,Enclosed and safe within its central heart,Nestles the seed perfection.

Walt Whitman, Song of the Univer

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

Jennifer Garner

Religion has run out of justifications.

Christopher Hitchens

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Julie Bowen