"Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground."

“El pan comido y la compan?  |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.”

“I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.”

“I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Nov 28, 2012

“I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!”

Source : "Model Cameron Russell Doesn't Pull Together Outfits, She Lets Them Collapse!". Interview with Melody Nazarian, www.popsugar.com. November 4, 2010.

“It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who - all of a sudden - their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary,”

Source : "Duncan Apologizes For 'Clumsy' Common Core Remarks". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. Eric Westervelt.

“I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?”

“According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.”

Source : Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.”