I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

Do not weep for me.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

A passage of scripture is written on every cliff.

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.

I don't know why there aren't more Depression buffs.

It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.

I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

Women have a better sense of color and a better color memory. They're more likely to notice when something doesn't match; more likely to notice what you're wearing.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

I'm excited to watch slope style and halfpipe. And then, of course, when my events are done, I get to go to hockey, which is always entertaining. I also like figure skating. I think every girl grew up watching figure skating.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell.' I thought, 'Well, I'm just going to move to L.A. and become famous. 'Squeakwell' is going to launch me to that point.' Well, I didn't end up working for, like, three years afterward. That's kind of the name of the game.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

I lived in Italy for two months when I was in college. And I traveled to Paris. I traveled to Egypt. I traveled to Spain. I just would travel a lot. I remember going to Paris and saying, speaking French, 'I would like some chicken and some fries.' And just the chicken and fries was, oh my gosh, just so amazing. I became intrigued and inspired.

The law doesn't create a right.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

If nothing is going well call your grandmother.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.