Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.

There is no excuse for bad manners except fast reflexes.

Dont explain why it works explain how you use it.

There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.

Even if youre a guy and you dont believe in dancing you should try dance cardio. Its really fun

Inclusion and fairness in the workplace is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.

I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

have you ever seen the world upside down the rainbows seem to smile

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.

Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.

More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.

But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.