I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise, and will be contented with nothing less.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Thomas Moore

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Loretta Lynn

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Maurice Blanchot

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Susan Sarandon

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

will.i.am

Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Vince Lombardi

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Marshall McLuhan

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

Thomas Kretschmann

It is not the reverence for words, but for their that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.

Felix Alba-Juez

Some of us enjoy with today, some with future and some other with past.

Shayne Azad

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

Kristin Cashore