Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

Ving Rhames

War is a contagion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

H. L. Mencken

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

Frederick Douglass

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

Edie Brickell

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Terry Pratchett

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

David Sedaris

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Thomas Kempis

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Michael Shermer

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

Hugh Shelton

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

Ted Nugent

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Socrates