Penelope Cruz Oscar

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~Ben Jonson

I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling. ~Kimberly Jones

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~Eckhart



Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting. ~Eleanor Perenyi



Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land. ~Cornel West, "Nihilism in America," Race Matters, 1993



I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams



Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food. ~Robert S. Mendelsohn



Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out. ~Norman Mailer



The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes. ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1975



I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis



It's a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim. ~Author Unknown



Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson



Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. ~Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009 Jan 20, Washington, D.C.



Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight. ~Gore Vidal



I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value. ~Author Unknown



Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can't hold back. ~Author Unknown



My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. ~Albert Einstein



If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. ~Bob Golic



What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? ~Author Unknown