I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

'Throne of Glass' readers tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcoming 'TOG' readers are to new fans.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

Theres a general impulse to distract the grieving person as if you could.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

I bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.

Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.

I've been very lucky to work with people I think are funny and who are really awesome human beings.

In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

When I finished performing 'I Won't Give Up' for the first time, I opened my eyes, and I think there was maybe six people in there when I started, and when I finished there was about 30 people, all standing around with their jaws dropped in complete silence. I said, 'Okay, I think this song has some power to it.' So coffee shops work for me.

The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.