Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Roast beef medium is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

The goats business is none of the sheeps concern.

Christmas isnt a season. Its a feeling.

Houseworks the hardest work in the world. Thats why men wont do it.

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

All through life there were distinctions toilets for men toilets for women clothes for men clothes for women then at the end the graves are identical.

I do my schooling through an independent study program where I am able to do all my work at home, and then every two weeks, I meet with my teacher and turn in my work. When I am on set, I work with a studio teacher, and we do a mandatory three hours of school a day.

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.

It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

In the Dominican, there are a lot of kids who need help. I just do that for my mom because my mom liked to help a lot of kids in the Dominican. Whoever I am right now is because of her. She gave me the education; she always took care of me like a mommy.

I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.

Belief isn’t something you can be reassured about. It’s something that has to come from inside.

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you've got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what's gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that's in the industry has lost their edge.

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

I intend to live life, not just exist.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.