Life

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

...Being around him wasn’t good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum—it was like trying to talk to his parents. He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he’d come.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

I was born with my voice in my hands.

I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

When I used to wrestle professionally, I preferred being the bad guy known as 'The Heel;' you would get to 'work the crowd,' getting them to hate you and want to see you lose, while the good guy 'Babyface' would walk in, smile and shake hands with a few kids, and his acting job was done.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Someone somewhere may be one of the most important person to you currently but you will always be nothing more than a backup plan to them.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

I have no name,' she purred. 'I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.

Every journey starts with the first step and the thousands upon thousands steps before you reach the end. Enjoy every step.

A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

Facilis descensus averno - The descent into hell is easy.

Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn’t look like the proper place for you,” said Chase.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops.