Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

Renee Fleming

Love is the mortar that holds the human structure together.

Karen Casey

There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.

Christopher Hitchens

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

Susan Orlean

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Mark Twain

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

Melanie Brown

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Anne Ridler

There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen.

Source Unknown

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

John L. Lewis

She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world to just let her go.lines from Love Vs Destiny...

Atul Purohit

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.

Andrew Johnson

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

Petra Ecclestone