From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Abraham Lincoln

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashley Montagu

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

John Updike, Quoted in Writers a

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Sidney Poitier

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Dennis Miller

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

Deborah Bull

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

Nina LaCour

So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.

Edward Burns

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

Heidi Klum

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Charles Simic

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

Steven Erikson