He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

Martina McBride

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Gary Lineker

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

Jim Barksdale

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Dan Savage

For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No heartbreak has grieved me as much to discover, the calorie content of my peanut butter.

Coco J. Ginger

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Joyce Carol Oates

Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.

Toba Beta

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Richard Avedon

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Ken Keyes Jr.