Writing Calibration Quotes

#1. I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.

Dita Von Teese

#2. Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Clifford Stoll

#3. I never travel without my sketch book.

Ian Wright

#4. The difference was that all through those eight months I had been trying to substitute an alternate reel. Now I was trying only to reconstruct the collision, the collapse of the dead star.

Joan Didion

#5. It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Marco Rubio

#6. Enough of satire; in less harden'd times
Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes.
I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave,
Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave;
Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms
From her one line, than from a world in arms.

Charles Churchill

#7. I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

Joe Bradley

#8. It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

Paris Hilton

#9. You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson

#10. I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

Soledad O'Brien

#11. I inhale hope with every breath I take.

Sharon Kay Penman

#12. A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.

Frederick The Great