I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

Even a smile is a good deed.

I get $13 [a week] now, because I’m 13.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.