A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Benjamin Franklin

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

Geddy Lee

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

William Blake

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Diogenes

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, on writin

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.

Kato Kaelin

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

John A. Lincoln

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

Tom Colicchio