I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Frank Sinatra

When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.

Emo Philips

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Dr. Jess Lair

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

Jacqueline Carey

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison

So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

John Green

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Thomas Huxley

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

Conrad Hilton, from autobiograph

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

Not by might, or power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.

Bible

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

Margaret Cho

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber