It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

Why argue about things you can't prove?

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but they were as alive as the kangaroo that'd just hopped away.

These hands will never go awaythey will scoop you up at anytimeanytime that you want to be loved

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.