I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Tori Amos

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Aaliyah

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Oliver Goldsmith

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Larry Wall

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

Cate Blanchett

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

John Luther

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Dick Morris

This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

Henry David Thoreau

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

J.K. Rowling

If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.