I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

Josephine Humphreys

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

Sam Donaldson

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Christopher Lasch

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Steven Wright

I had it all and blew it.

Mickey Mantle

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

Marc Andreessen

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw Lec

And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped...

J.K. Rowling

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

J. C. Macaulay

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of the world is not

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

Lee DeWyze

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Marcus Tullius Cicero