Once upon a timeof all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eveold Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.

The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.

Lauren Conrad

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Bob Richards

I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.

Jenny McCarthy

I swear to the LordI still can't seeWhy Democracy meansEverybody but me.

Langston Hughes, The Black Man S

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

Frank Luntz

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Moli

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

Danny Glover

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

Albert Einstein

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

Ridley Scott

As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.Tyson, Neil deGrasse; Avis Lang (2012-02-20). Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Kindle Locations 1880-1882). Norton. Kindle Edition.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Thomas Jefferson