“You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)”

“It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'by Mariah Carey)”

“You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.”

“People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.”

“My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.”

“I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.”

“Don't allow yourself to get into the habit of dressing carelessly when there is 'only' your husband to see you. Depend upon it he has no use for faded tea-gowns and badly dressed hair, and he abhor...”

“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”

“Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.”

“Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. Hes quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. Hes a brown-hai...”

“I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why its better than television," he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his beard in a sleepy tangle. Dunn's Magnificent Idea”

“By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”