I've never turned down a fight in my life. Ever.

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to…

— Laurie Helgoe

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world…

— Marianne Vos

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

— Matthew Fox

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything…

— Trent Reznor

When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your…

— Michael Cudlitz

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.…

— Nancy Gibbs

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They…

— Amanda Hale

When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy.…

— Malcolm Gladwell

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop…

— Marina and the Diamonds

I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.

— Deke Richards

Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a…

— Steve Southerland

I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.

— Danny K. Davis

I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all…

— Lance Gross

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting…

— Nelson Mandela