Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Sacha Guitry

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Darius Ogden Mills

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

Steve Irwin

Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.

Cray Seymore

We're reclaiming America and restoring honor. I believe we do that with faith, with hope, with charity, and honoring our brothers and our sisters as we honor each other.

Alveda King

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Audrey Hepburn

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Carl Sandburg

I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.

Susie Clevenger

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Those who desire to certify miracles may wish to say that such recoveries have no natural explanation. But this does not at all mean that there is therefore a supernatural one.

Christopher Hitchens

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

Herman Melville

Win or lose, playing at all is winning.

Wolfgang Nording