Month Themed Quotes

#1. I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic ... (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

Herbert Croly

#2. I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

Donna Mills

#3. He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Stephen King

#5. Because without fear, there was no such thing as bravery.

Tina Folsom

#6. I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

Joaquin Phoenix

#7. If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

Deepak Chopra

#8. I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

John Travolta

#9. My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

Dennis Wolfberg

#10. When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.

Ted Ligety

#11. It was so hot we spent our waking hours dozing and our sleeping hours lying awake, trying to sleep.

Geoff Dyer

#12. Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.

Frank Pittman

#13. Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure
wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Sinclair Lewis

#14. I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.

Hector Tobar

#15. The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

Conor Oberst

#16. New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.

Jon Stewart