Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Moira Kelly

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

Rebecca Lobo

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Thomas Fuller

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

Julius Irving

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Angela Davis

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Veronica Roth

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

Johnny Vegas

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke, Speech on Concilia

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

Orson Welles

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

Brooke Burke

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

James Madison

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Edmund Burke