"Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers."

“It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.”

Source : "Its a rat trap" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2003.

“Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.”

Source : "Do Tell: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Funny Senator". Interview with Mary Ann Akers, voices.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2007.

“In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.”

“We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.”

“If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.”

“I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.”

“To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.”