"A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb."

“You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.”

“We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.”

“A view of heaven from a seat in hell.”

Source : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“It’s not a guy and a girl, or a girl and a girl or a guy and a guy - it’s a relationship.”

“My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.”

“I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play, I don't need to go too far.”

Source : "Lleyton Hewitt: Top Spin Intreview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 20, 2003.

“I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.”

“As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.”