Ariah Sweet Quotes

#1. The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. Earl Moncrief, the butler, built his financial, procurement, and secret service organizations with the brute power of cash and a profound understanding of clever, malicious, discontented people who lived behind servile facades.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. (L)ife is like walking between two tall buildings on a tightrope. For some, the rope is wide enough and the walk is easy. For others, it's narrow and hard and maybe there's a strong wind blowing through their days

Walter Dean Myers

#4. Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#5. I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good!

Rachael Ray

#6. People are being really picky about the upcoming election. I read that Americans do not want the next president to be a first-term senator, be over 65, or have a former president in the family. Then the Secret Service said, 'Hey, whoever slips through slips through. No promises.'

Jimmy Fallon

#7. Anything that hurts this much should at least bleed.

Naima Simone

#8. Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me

W.S. Merwin

#9. The latest report is that Osama bin Laden has shaved his beard, is wearing Western clothes and has had plastic surgery. Isn't that amazing? The guy has made just two videos and he's already gone Hollywood.

Jay Leno

#10. Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

Nancy Kress

#11. I thought, 'It doesn't matter what that woman is wearing,' but then I realised actually it's our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.

Alber Elbaz

#12. By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

Jonah Lehrer