Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

James Thurber

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Elizabeth Bowen

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Yoko Ono

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember, that time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

Ellen Ochoa

People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged.

Lorii Myers

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

Suze Orman

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Jonathan Carroll

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike

Plato

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

George C. Wallace

Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted:

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