“Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.”

Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he’s never counted.

I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven’t got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

You don’t need to know what you’re escaping from to become a fugitive.

If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don’t get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.

People aren’t often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don’t smell it, you don’t taste it, it’s formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.

Women only cut their hair in times of crisis… It’s somethin’ a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin’ hair is a cry for help.

The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn’t make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world’s suffering, you go mad.

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.

I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time.

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.