Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau
I wouldnt say Im normal. But Im relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f— out of me. – Gillian Anderson
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. – Sigmund Freud
Im extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I dont mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didnt exist, as did Oprah. – Tracee Ellis Ross
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world. – Jean-Paul Sartre
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education – and less on alcohol and cigarettes. – Dee Dee Myers
