Melissa Pritchard Quotes

One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny.

Melissa Pritchard

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LifePeopleMeaningMessyEveryday

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.

Jesse L. Martin

FamilyGreatChildMeEnoughBoy

What the voters told us in the 2010 election was that they wanted a change. And I believe a moderate approach with a dedication to working across the aisle, something I know is important to both me and Congressman Shuler, is the best way forward.

Joe Donnelly

ChangeBestDedicationMeBelieve

I say, 'I'm bi, my love knows no gender,' and the straight community says, 'Oh right, that's just a cover-up - you're gay!' And the gay community says, 'Yeah right, that's just a cover-up - you're gay.' They both want to push me gay.

Andy Dick

LoveCommunityMePushGenderYou

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

Jeb Bush

TodayTimeChallengesWorldThink

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.

Sidney Crosby

TryPrettyStayJust

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

Tove Jansson

FreeYouToo MuchAdmireSomebody

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

Tracy Morgan

MeCareerMattersMoreMayWorking

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift

NatureAmbitionShortSaidLittle

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Dianne Feinstein

WomenGoSeeThroughTakeDoorway

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Douglas Coupland

New YorkPeopleNewOverThemePark

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

Delia Ephron

ChildrenEnergyEnthusiasmHelpMean

The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.

David Souter

DecisionSimpleConstitutionValues

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