Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Lauren Myracle

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Ellen Key

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

Rachel McAdams

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Samuel Butler

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Charles Schumer

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

Thomas Jefferson

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

David Foster Wallace

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.

Patti Stanger

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

Thornton Wilder

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In married life three is company and two none.

Oscar Wilde