"If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha,"

“Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better”

“I'll be your crying shoulder.”

Source : Song: I'LL BE Album 'Misguided Roses'

“Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.”

“I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“A fact is not a truth until you love it.”

Source : Shelby Foote, William C. Carter (1989). “Conversations with Shelby Foote”, p.248, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.”

“Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.”

“[T]he degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system ... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems.”