Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

Suzanne Collins

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Sir Winston Churchill

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Ruth Bernhard

This is a typical journalistic statement: It is correct, but it is not the truth.

Helmut Kohl

Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you.

Zadie Smith

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Colin Quinn

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

James H. Breasted

I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Archbishop Derek Worlock