A single word often betrays a great design.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

Lev Yilmaz

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

King James I

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

Gabrielle Union

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler

You can wake up every day looking forward to new adventures with hope smiling brightly before you because you have a Savior. You are baptized in His Church.... You just need to stay in, pressing forward with a brightness of hope to your heavenly home.

Julie B. Beck

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

J. B. Priestley

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Michel de Montaigne

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Trey Anastasio

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Liz Phair