Quotable Quotes from Reader's Digest

"What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff." - Paul Mccartney

"Joy is one of the only emotions you can't contrive." - BONO in USA Today

"I have missed more than 9000 shots. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed." - Michael Jordon

"Being a dad is the greatest, except for assembling things." - CONAN O'BRIEN in People

"The ageing process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson

"Drinking is the only thing you don't get better at the more you do it." - JR MOEHRINGER in The Tender Bar

"When kids hit one year old, it's lilke hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit." - Johnny Depp

"There are some things in life where it's better to receive than to give, and massage is one of them." - AL MICHAELS

"I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see." - PEGGY NOONAN in What I Saw at the Revolution

"I sing like a lady from an old black-and-white musical. But I love it." - Queen Latifah

"Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable." - Alex Rodriguez

"There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing it anyway." - MAX BURNETT on "Dateline"

"I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!" - AL ROKER in BJ's Journal

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - FERRIS BUELLER in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time." - Mitch Albom

"Ask friends about the people and places that shaped them, and summer springs quickly when they tell their story: their first kiss, first beer, first job that changed everything." - NANCY GIBBS in Time

"I don't believe in stars. Except the ones you can look up and see." - Loretta Lynn

"You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary." - Michael J. Fox

"In a just and generous society you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential." - Barack Obama

"The grass may be greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut." Little Richard

"It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism." - Charles Osgood

"Food, love, mother and career: the four basic guilt groups." - Cathy Gusiewite

"For marriage to be success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end." - Catherine Zeta-Jones in InStyle

"Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note." - BERNIE BRILLSTEIN, The Little Stuff Matter Most

"There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance." - GEORGE FOREMAN in Guideposts

"The greatest dreams are always unrealistic." - WILL SMITH in Parade

"I'm better off not socialising. I make a better impression if I'm not around." - Christopher Walken

"You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh." - Jay Leng

"Humour is always based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?" - Dick Clark

"Wrinkles only go where the smiles have been." - JIMMY BUFFETT, Barefoot Children in the Rain.

"Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart. Show me the person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag." - JULIA ROBERTS in Entertainment Weekly

"That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid." - MEGAN MULLALLY In Ladies' Home Journal

"If you can find humour in anything, even poverty, you can survive it." - Bill Cosby

"Part of what makes a human being is the imperfections. Like, you wouldn't give a robot my ears." - WILL SMITH in inTouch

"Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have." - JERRY SEINFELD in TV Guide

"One doesn't have a sense of humour. It has you." - Larry Gelbart

"If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing." - ED MCMAHON in TV Guide

"Life isn't all golf." - TIGER WOODS in ESPN: The Magazine

"What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son." - BEN STEIN on CNN

"Work is the least important thing and family is the most important." - Jerry Seinfeld in TV Guide

"I'm certainly not an expert, but Tim and I just celebrated 17 years together, which in Hollywood years I think is 45." - SUSAN SARADON in Chicago Sun-Times

"I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment, than the first time learn of my giggle." - SEAN PENN in O, the Oprah Magazine

"Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener." - Quoted by PAULA DEEN on the Food Network

"Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realise this as soon as they are born and start using sleep deprivation to break you." - Ray Romano

"I figure somewhere between kid number one and number seven, I must have learned a few things." - MEL GIBSON in McCall's





Extracted from Reader's Digest