Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.

I have a very strong family.

Janet Jackson

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow

William Shakespeare

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Alfred Hitchcock

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Augustine Birrell

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

Steve Maraboli

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

Phillip Phillips

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

Tammy Bruce

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Tim Gunn

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Jim Butcher