In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

Your life on earth will be graded by the effect of the footprints you leave behind

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.

I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.

Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind