War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Emma Goldman

I'm so grounded, it's sad.

Patti LaBelle

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

Justin Long

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

Source Unknown

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerner

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

Robert Stone

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Samuel Johnson

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Kim Basinger