The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

James Barrie

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

Emma Goldman

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Dr. Seuss

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Vladimir Kramnik

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

John Newcombe

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

Philip Pullman

I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.

Charlotte Arnold

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

Carmen Electra

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.

Lara Stone

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

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I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.

George Bush