It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

Maria Sharapova

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

W. C. Fields

Una rosa se despertó en su sangre y ensombreció sus mejillas. Un agitado aliento separó los pétalos de sus labios, que temblaron. Sobre ella sopló algún viento sur de pasión y movió los delicados pliegos de su vestido

Oscar Wilde

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Ernst Mach

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.

Avril Lavigne

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.

Jonathan Brown

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

Paulo Coelho

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

James Wolcott

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

Terry Pratchett