My Almost Epic Summer Quotes

#1. Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

Adele Griffin

#2. I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

Hattie McDaniel

#3. ... balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Billy Collins

#4. I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me.

Jesse Jackson Jr.

#5. What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

Tina Brown

#6. The world has far too much morality.

Steven Pinker

#7. I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.

John Irving

#8. God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

Thomas Hale

#9. The answers to our prayers may not come dramatically, but we must find quiet moments to seek greater light and truth. And when we receive it, it is our responsibility to live it, to share it, and to defend it.

Cheryl A. Esplin

#10. She was a hippie teacher who worked in the Peace Corps in Nepal and had hairy underarms. Fucking gross. And that's just concerning the Peace Corps. Brad Wollack

Chelsea Handler

#11. Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.

Brian Tracy