Torio Van Quotes

#1. I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#2. During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

Harriet Doerr

#3. You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.

Michael Ian Black

#4. All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

Mark Twain

#5. The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

Eric Hoffer

#6. I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

Bruce Boxleitner

#7. A mother's love is like an everlasting bed of roses, that continues to blossom. A mother's love bears strength, comfort, healing and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each rose petal and inspires hope.

Ellen J. Barrier

#8. Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes your way, and the media will embrace you.

Linda F. Radke

#9. any community that does not police itself will be policed from outside.

Massad Ayoob

#10. The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there's a happy ending.

Felicia Day

#11. Sometimes it was the journey that counted and every one of them had signed on for an odyssey.

Evan Currie

#12. We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.

Matt Chandler

#13. Family is fun, way more fun than music.

Aaron Watson

#14. President Bush spoke with the Amish. He didn't want to, but it was the only group he could find that wasn't upset about the high price of gas.

Jay Leno