It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Gretchen Wilson

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Thomas De Quincey

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

Alice Sebold

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Thomas Hobbes

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Mike Tyson

If you want to understand yourself,Then do not examine yourself.Just love yourself more sincerely,More soulfullyAnd more self-givingly.

Sri Chinmoy

How does one say something new and not retell?

Dejan Stojanovic

I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

Ted McGinley

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Peter Handke

Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish: and therefore there is no stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding, than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary, when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it.

George Savile

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constiture part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

Joseph Silk

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Candice Bergen