Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money? asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. Why is it an either or question? the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

Christina Aguilera

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Andrew Cuomo

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Alice Walker

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker, In Search of Our M

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

Kenneth L. Pike

That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.

Charles Dickens

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.

Kim Clijsters

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

Simon Fowler

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking - and looking.

Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the

I will say something still easier. Take a single flea or louse-since you tempt and mock our God with this talk about curing a lame horse-and if, after combining all the powers and concentrating all the efforts both of your good and all your supporters, you succeed in killing it in the name of free choice, you shall be victorious, your case shall be established, and we too will come at once and worship that god of yours, that wonderful killer of the louse.

Martin Luther King Jr.

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Matthew Arnold