Eclectic Thinker Quotes

#1. Growing up, I didn't know about families who were missing a father, because there weren't any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men's doing?

Timothy J. Russert

#2. Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Cathy Rigby

#3. Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

Loretta Chase

#4. My social status leaps after decades of disqualification on grounds of radiation. The doorbell rings and there stands Vanessa Redgrave. 'Marcie,' she begins, and then goes on about social injustice in Namibia, and how we must all build a raft by late afternoon - preferably out of coconut matting.

Morrissey

#5. Oprah tells women what to read, what to eat, what to think, what to do ...

Adam Carolla

#6. Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. I think having children is the most amazing thing.

Rachel Stevens

#8. With 'Supermoms,' my ex-husband and father of my 15-year-old child was a writer-producer on that project. We're both of the mind that we should try and handle these changing times as best we can. He's very forward-thinking about brand marketing.

Julie Warner

#9. A wandering dog of a night wind came in off the sagebrush mesa carrying a bar of band music, and laid it on her doorstep like a bone.

Wallace Stegner

#10. Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. There must be a precise moment when wet cement turns dry, when it no longer accepts footprints or scratched-in declarations of love; an ordinary moment, unnoticed, just like any. But in that moment, the facts of a life can change.

Nora Carroll

#12. We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

Michael E. Mann