What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by taking the risk, even if you fail?

Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.

Emily Dickinson

But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.

Lil' Kim

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Jose Marti

My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.

Elayne Boosler

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Elizabeth Moon

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Jerry Brown

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

Sharon Stone

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Linda Evangelista

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he's got no skills.

Charles Barkley