The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

Samuel Johnson

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Cary Grant

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Barack Obama

Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.

L.J. Smith

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

George Bernard Shaw

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

Alfre Woodard

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

George A. Sheehan

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

Mrs. Humphrey Ward

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Catherine Deneuve

You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves.p.32

Stephen Elliott

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Elizabeth Warren