Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

Helen Frankenthaler

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mind you can't do something, you're absolutely right.

Source Unknown

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Henry Ford

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

J. Bartlett Brebner

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered.

Franco Nero

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

John Lahr

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

Fannie Flagg

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

Drew Barrymore

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

Loretta Young

Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.

Proverb

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

Olivia Williams

As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

Jane Austen