Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.

Oscar Wilde

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Billy Eckstine

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

Christopher Hitchens

That was the burden,' she mused, 'laid on me in the cradle; murmured by waves; breathed by restless elm trees; crooned by singing women; what we must rememeber; what we would forget.

Virginia Woolf

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

John Mason Brown

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Flip Wilson

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Sheryl Sandberg

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

Annie Elizabeth Delany, Having O

Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.

Jordin Sparks

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Maggie Gallagher

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Terry Pratchett