My big thing is people. I just love people in my life.

Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, 'If you don't like me, screw you.' If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.

Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.

The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

I still have horrible luck with girls.

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

Each of us has the ability to build

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.

Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant.

Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.

... mommahelp meturn the face of historyto your face.- Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

I told [McCourt] the season is like a kaleidoscope. Every day it changes one degree and the picture is different.