It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Carol Ann Duffy

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

Trent Lott

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

Sandra Bullock

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Kenny Rogers

Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

Nicholas Sparks

I wish sometimes that I just didn't have to think about any of this, and could drone away my life. It would be easier.

Mark Heard

I ate mythology

Yusef Komunyakaa

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

Kevin J. Anderson

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

T. S. Eliot

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one

Joan Didion, "Vogue", June, 1961

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Andy Warhol

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ni