"You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable."

“I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.”

“My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.”

“There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves into Ah now don't push it, and finally it comes under Right now you're takin the piss, and that's when the police come in.”

“It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.187, iUniverse

“I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.”

“What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.506, David R. Godine Publisher

“I have so much love to give. That's why, when I was single, I talked about being married and wanting to have children so much. I have so much love that's been poured into me, by my family, my friends, strangers! Once I put myself on a national platform to be an actress and singer, so much love gets poured into me that I just exude all of that love! So, really, it's just a residual effect of what you guys are giving me. I'm overflowing!”

“The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.”