Quotes Of The Day

“We're just trying to win games ­- ­it's not about who you're playing or where you're going. We got the effort and the defense is back to where it should be and if we can take care of the ball a little better I think we'll be okay.” Derek Thomas

“The consumer was in fairly good shape before Hurricane Katrina. Sales were strong virtually across the board.” Dean Maki

Who Are We to Tell Anyone What They Can or Can't Do? Behnam Rajabpoor

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. Gro Harlem Brundtland

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter. Cynthia Heimel

Jace likes to pretend that everyone isn't talking about him, even when he knows they are. Cassandra Clare

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility. Will Ferrell

We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window. Pete Wentz

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. Michel Hazanavicius

“I wanted to write an antiwar song but didn't want to denigrate the courage of the soldier. There was too much of that 'baby killer' stuff going on.” Eric Bogle

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting. Helen Mirren

Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies. Danny Strong

“I feel that my daddy and his family were the first family of Trade Street.” Richard Miller

It rang and it rand and it rang. I looked at the screen one last time, then at Stuart, and then I reached my arm back and threw the phone as hard as I could (sadly, not that far), and it vanished into the snow. The eight-year-olds, who were truly fascinated with our every move at this point, chased after it. 'Lost it,' I said. 'Whoops. Maureen Johnson

“Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone-and no one minds.” Elspeth Huxley

After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige. Franz Cumont

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. Kay Redfield Jamison

You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does. Frederick Lenz

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool. David Longstreth

“Their philosophy, in my opinion, was to get out to the voters, as many people as they could, and visit with them. I'm going to try and do the same thing.” Clay Harris