A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

John Ruskin

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Hume Cronyn

Less is more.see Browning

Mies Van der Rohe, attributed, "

As a mom, I understand how important it is to ensure kids start their day right and always make sure my kids have a nutritious breakfast. One in five U.S. children live in homes where food is not always available, which is why I partnered with Kellogg's on their 'Share Your Breakfast' campaign, which provide breakfasts to kids in need.

Monica Potter

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape a

Thomas Carlyle

I love my gay male friends, but when I was a little girl, I always used to wish that I would be constantly surrounded by gorgeous guys, and I am, and I should have been more specific.

Margaret Cho

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

Jenny McCarthy

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Len Wein

I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

Ernest Hemingway

Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody

Bertrand Russell