My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. Theysaid, What for? I said, I'm going to buy some sugar.

Steven Wright

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

Kristen Stewart

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Robert Kennedy

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

Rickie Lee Jones

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Ayelet Waldman

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

Joni Mitchell

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

W. H. Auden

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

Michael Jordan

I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.

Hilary Duff

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

George Bernard Shaw

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

William Hazlitt, The Conversatio