It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.

Gerard Butler

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Julian Barnes

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Sinead O'Connor

Possibly the worst break up line ever: it's not me, it's you.

Anonymous

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

Sheryl Sandberg

AnatasiaYou Are My More My Love, My LifeChristian

E.L. James

Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Harry S Truman

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

May Sarton

Faith is never identical with piety.

Karl Barth

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

Mel Brooks, "Newsweek", February