It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

Cindy Crawford

And you, systematic Utopians, who make an abstraction of human nature, fomentors of atheism, fed on chimerae and hatreds, emancipators of woman, destroyers of the family, genealogists of the simian race, you whose name was but lately an outrage, be satisfied: you shall have been the prophets, and your disciples will be the high-priests of an abominable future!

Comte de Falloux

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

Christina Rossetti

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Joe Flanigan

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

James Thomson

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

Jeffrey Jones

A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote.

Eric McCormack

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

Rachel Maddow

There are so many charlatans in the world of education. They teach for a couple of years, come up with a few clever slogans, build their websites, and hit the lecture circuit. In this fast-food-society, simple solutions to complex problems are embraced far too often. We can do better. I hope that people who read this book realize that true excellence takes sacrifice, mistakes, and enormous amounts of effort. After all, there are no shortcuts.

Rafe Esquith

How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?

John Steinbeck