I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.

To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.

I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.

I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

When I was a wee little kid, " remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

I believe in community policing.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

Even when I'm about to die I like to sound interesting and special. It was just talk.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.