I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

I have been on a calendar, but never on time.

Marilyn Monroe

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

Rowan Atkinson

There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perf

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.

George Papandreou

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Hernando Cortez

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

Dave Mustaine

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Ben Hogan

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Stephen Colbert

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

Paula Poundstone

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Tori Amos