There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.
If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, 'You guys are gay, right?'
I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.
I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.
When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.
I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.
I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.
When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!
The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.
It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.
I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.
I'm really low maintenance for a girl. I pretty much shower, attempt to fix my hair, throw on some mineral make up, and go.
