Digressing Crossword Quotes

#1. It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

Veronica Roth

#2. There was a Catholic priest and the Seventh Day Adventist minister sitting together on one flight. The priest ordered a Scotch and water. The minister said, "I'd rather commit adultery than drink." The priest looked up at me and said, "I didn't know I had a choice today." That was a fun trip.

Trudy Baker

#3. Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

Sebastian Vettel

#4. I think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values tha tinform my politics that are appropriate to talk about.

Barack Obama

#5. For the most part, yeah, I'm happy with my body, but there are days when I'm like, 'Ugh! Really? Why is it so hard to fit into my jeans?' That's when I say to myself, 'I look this way because I'm supposed to. If we all looked the same, we'd be boring.'

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#6. The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.

Joel Burns

#7. I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#8. I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

Pamela Anderson

#9. Is truth here
In the ugly unseemliness?
The graceless moments
Before and after
Eyes are watching?
In the unballerina
The unperformed?

Stasia Ward Kehoe