Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Shared laughter is erotic too.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry a yam of a woman of butter and brass.

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly and that is one of the sources of my writing

Long hair is considered bohemian which may be why I grew it but I keep it long because I love the way it feels part cloak part fan part mane part security blanket.

The best gift you can give is a hug one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?