“I've never been able to understand why it is that just because I am a writer, I am supposed to have opinions on everything.”— Alan Bennett
“What are you going to do with your life? In the 1950s, it was easy to answer that question. You were going to get married and have kids. That was your life.”— Jeffrey Eugenides
“I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with the sunshine, there's gotta be a little rain sometimes.”— Lynn Anderson
“There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as that we are to ourselves.”— Philip James Bailey
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”— Richard P. Feynman
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”— David Guterson
“The time is past when the workers of America will be satisfied with a bone and a crust.”— Sidney Hillman
“The fans here are the best. They're knowledgeable, they're passionate, and they expect you to win.”— Jorge Posada
“I find that in life, if you have an expectation of something, you're going to be let down.”— Rebecca Romijn
“People say, 'Stalin's daughter,' 'Stalin's daughter,' meaning I'm supposed to walk around with a rifle and shoot the Americans. Or they say, 'No, she's come here. She is an American citizen.' That means I'm with a bomb against the others. No, I'm neither one. I'm somewhere in between. That 'somewhere in between' they can't understand.”— Svetlana Alliluyeva