All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Carl von Clausewitz

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

Brooklyn Decker

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

Rahm Emanuel

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

Mia Hamm

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Jimmy Carter

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

George Eliot

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

Whoopi Goldberg

Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine.

Parker, Dorothy

To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

Heinrich Heine