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“I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.”
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“You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.”
Source : Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”
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“I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.”
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“Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'”
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“The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.”
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“The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance.”
Source : William Westney (2003). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”
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“Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder. So just appreciate. I feel like in our world today we focus on so many things that are completely pointless.”
Source : "Jessica Simpson comments on weight-gain onstage" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. January 30, 2009.