Then there was your voiceLike a windup tin toyLike the sweetest nails on a chalkboardThat I ever heard

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

Source Unknown

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

Kevin Kelly

We don't want to feel helpless, so we use fear, anger, addiction, or unbridled sexuality to block out our helpless feelings. The fact is that if we cannot openly face our feeling of helplessness, we cannot receive help. It is important that we accept our helplessness, taking it to God and allowing Him to be strong where we are weak. When we let Him be God, we receive continuous healing for our woundedness. But when we hide our pain, helplessness, and insecurity, we find ourselves at the mercy of our narcissistic, wounded false self with its insatiable craving for validation and anesthesia.

David F. Allen, Shattering the G

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Christopher Morley

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

Michael Pollan

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

Elizabeth von Arnim

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

Sherri Shepherd

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

Warren Beatty

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

Thomas Carlyle

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

Rob Sheffield