If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

Chris Hayes

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Alice Koller

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Alexander Smith

Ever notice how irons have a setting for *permanent* press? I don't get it...

Steven Wright

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

Robert Sternberg

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

Raymond Chandler

Know or listen to those who know.

Baltasar Gracian

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Colin Powell

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Baltasar Gracian

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Doris Lessing

I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!

Katherine Jenkins