"What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!"

“Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.”

Source : "Melissa McCarthy: 'I don't know why I am not thinner'", www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2012.

“Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.”

“It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying”

“I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.”

“Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.”

Source : "In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

“Lionel Messi? When I played against him at Sevilla it was always very difficult, so now I'm pleased that we're on the same side. He's just fantastic.”

“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.”

“What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption tax or an income tax. It's about adherence to Constitution and the principle of limited government.”