So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.

If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers, the sort of people I trust to know what they're doing.

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to go to a meeting about it. And then I got just totally turned on.

We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew