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Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to

recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. Nelson Goodman I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? Charles de Lint It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. Guy Johnson Time is flying never to return. Virgil I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan. John Bonham A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. Emile M. Cioran Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. Frank Moore Colby

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the

need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. Raymond E. Feist I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. Frida Lyngstad To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson I know My God commands, whose power no power resists. Robert Greene Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. Publilius Syrus I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. Walter Wager But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already. Herbie Hancock

My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and

give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help. Dan Marino Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. Harry S Truman Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. Robert Blair All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'. Moss Hart In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. John C. Calhoun If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed. Marianne Williamson The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born. Hun Sen

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the

world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different. Jeffrey Sachs Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. Grace Paley The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites. William Weld Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone. Nicholas Sparks What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers! Henry Austin Dobson I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself. Elizabeth Berkley

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount

only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Voltaire Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove. Owen D. Young Reform is born of need, not pity. Rebecca Harding Davis When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink. Francois Rabelais Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. John Burroughs What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. A. A. Milne

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be

free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books. Michael Connelly You can tell a lot from someone's eyes. Lorne Michaels A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. Emile M. Cioran The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. Denis Waitley There were a coupla times when I had had it. And when I'm pushed to the limit, I scream. Marg Helgenberger The harder I work, the luckier I get. Samuel Goldwyn The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as

NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning. Story Musgrave I am a drinker with writing problems. Brendan Behan Generally I'm against regulation. Dorothy Denning Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. Al Franken I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist. Terri Windling I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out. Alonzo Mourning

Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be

on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone. Michael Jeter Our children's children will hear a good story. Richard Adams We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. William Griffith Wilson Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance. Daniel De Leon I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. John Carmack I spent 10 years in New York doing theater. Kristen Johnston We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. William J. Brennan, Jr.

We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in

there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things. Graham Nash Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. Hilaire Belloc A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. Pat Riley It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? Fyodor Dostoevsky Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan. Billy Higgins Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a

rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question. Roger Mahony The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. Finley Peter Dunne I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. Charles Baudelaire I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington. Hilary Swank People don't really think other people are the same. Stanley Crouch Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs. Leonardo DiCaprio Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. David Letterman

I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most

influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation. Frank Scott Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. Gloria Steinem The lifeblood of my career has been independent film. James Woods In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. Spiro T. Agnew We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves. Rowan Williams It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! May Sarton So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva. Patti LaBelle

I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in

five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini. Brooke Burke The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness. Anacharsis We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. Seneca I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me. Elayne Boosler No man was ever great by imitation. Samuel Johnson There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly. Helen Rowland An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. Daniel Webster

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on

time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential. Christine Gregoire The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Anatole France The book you don't read won't help. Jim Rohn The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. W. H. Auden The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. Libby Houston The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere. Charles M. Schulz The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money. Ernie Banks

Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars.

It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.' James Coburn When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. Anais Nin Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. Phyllis Bottome I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. Corrie Ten Boom A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Dean Acheson Leave the rest to the gods. Horace

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced

by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world. Sai Baba When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. Carter G. Woodson The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. Thomas Dewar I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices. Amy Grant There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets. Gerhard Schroder Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Thomas Chandler Haliburton Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence. Jeffery Deaver

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life

more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance. Richard Branson Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded. David Allan Coe I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist. Milla Jovovich In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come. Walter Lang I was taught that pain is bad. Keith Miller Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Huxley

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you

want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. Leo Buscaglia Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. Solomon Ibn Gabirol Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. Ralph Waldo Emerson We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. Thomas Browne The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. Andy Rooney My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Steve Carlton We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past. John Eaton

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes

of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs. Vint Cerf On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. Stephen Harper A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. Jules Renard Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen. Richard E. Grant I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it. Will Wright I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. Katharine Hepburn

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about -

over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week. Margaret Smith Court I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. Jeffery Deaver You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. Stanislaw Lem I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. Mark Tobey The war against terrorism is one we must win. Lisa Murkowski Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me. Lawrence Tierney Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. Simone de Beauvoir

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat

if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person. Britney Spears If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. John Atkinson The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media. Garrett Graff Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. Tacitus I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses. Mary-Kate Olsen I need to broaden my horizons. Trevor Dunn We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say. Andy Partridge

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see

judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. Nancy Lopez We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned. George Steinbrenner All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. John Arbuthnot Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees. Charles Bent Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic. Ben Kingsley Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. Rainer Maria Rilke

Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids

and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath. David Thewlis To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. Naomi Wolf Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago. Lincoln Steffens I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present. Thayer David I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. Bonnie Raitt Be yourself, take control of your life. Emma Bunton I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle! Woody Allen

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually

under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. Harriet Martineau True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. John Milton The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents. Imran Khan It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together. Billy Higgins Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. Powell Clayton Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. Marie Curie Poetry lies its way to the truth. John Ciardi

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works.

And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law. Leon Jaworski ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders. Don Nickles Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. George Weinberg The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering. Bill Williams It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. Guillaume Apollinaire And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe. Fawn Hall

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should

vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility. Johnny Isakson We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. Arthur Eddington You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. Anthony Hope The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Linus Pauling Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years. Monty Hall Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it. John le Carre Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint. Billy Connolly

America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal

Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner. Jo Ann Emerson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. Benjamin Disraeli No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart. Nancy Thayer Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. Thomas Wolfe Van Halen is a work in progress. Alex Van Halen The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. William Odom Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important

to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying. Errol Morris The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants. Kenneth Lay I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. Will Rogers Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. Baltasar Gracian You can't choose up sides on a round world. Wayne Dyer I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy. Emma Bunton Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age. Frankie Avalon

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present

rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. David R. Brower It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. Vladimir Lenin I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore. Billy Idol There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. Saul Bellow I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times. Charles de Lint Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Emile M. Cioran I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body. Tina Louise

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students

and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. Barack Obama The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. Leonardo da Vinci I would rather clean than beg. Ayaan Hirsi Ali The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. Ralph Waldo Emerson There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush. Zell Miller Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. Peter Straub The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. George Bernard Shaw

And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was

not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches. William Cavendish Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. William Davenant If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. Kazuo Ishiguro It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can. John B. Larson It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it. Alain Prost When I became a Christian my confidence grew. Cliff Richard I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste. David Tudor

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just

like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. Norman Rockwell Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. John Bolton If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. Jean Cocteau To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. H. L. Mencken The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. Alberto Korda From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important. Tom Ford That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. Jack Henry Abbott

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation

to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. Thomas Clarkson The more one works, the more willing one is to work. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them. Danny Boyle The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending. Richard Morris Hunt Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. Eric Hoffer When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. Guillermo del Toro I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game. Paul Daniels

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited

from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me. Lisa Marie Presley The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. John Locke We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked. Sibel Edmonds Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. Calvin Coolidge I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. Louis Farrakhan God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts. Chanakya Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. Jean Vanier

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect.

I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. Frank Luntz Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. Jean Rostand There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. Sri Chinmoy I like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run. Jamal Lewis I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume! Dirk Benedict The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. Robert Wyatt

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside

your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. Tad Williams A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. Andrew Mellon Age is not important unless you're a cheese. Helen Hayes All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. Shelley Winters A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. Minna Antrim We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources. Silvia Cartwright The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. Richard Cecil

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where

we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. Barack Obama Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. Henry George Bohn A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. Napoleon Bonaparte Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future. Joan D. Vinge My father was often angry when I was most like him. Lillian Hellman Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. William James

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course

there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen. Andrea Corr Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple. Cheryl Ladd If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me. William Allingham The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. Yasser Arafat I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage. Angus Young It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak. Brett Favre However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. John Calvin

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the

gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. Robert Collier I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. Gilbert K. Chesterton The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis Giving is true having. Charles Spurgeon Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. Sydney Smith

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the

word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes. Cole Porter Creditors have better memories than debtors. Benjamin Franklin The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's. Donald Trump I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner Fame, I have already. Now I need the money. Wilhelm Steinitz Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment. Eric San

To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted,

but you have to pitch to get to the big leagues. Tools will get you drafted, but you have to be able to play to get to the big leagues. Roy Clark Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. Ivana Trump There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. Andrew Shue Hard writing makes easy reading. Wallace Stegner I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. Peter Fonda A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy. Cindy Margolis He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter? Katie Couric

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why

don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it. Zhu Rongji I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers. James Callaghan If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Actions lie louder than words. Bob Wells The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could. Paul Hogan I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing. Lisa Nicole Carson So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do. Latrell Sprewell

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse.

Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy. Liam Gallagher Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. Louis Kahn Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. John Crowe Ransom I haven't always made the right decisions. George Steinbrenner Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. John Lubbock I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death. David Blaine Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today. Lope de Vega

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry

away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. Lewis Thomas Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. Jonathan Swift The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. George A. Moore Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me. Rita Hayworth Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. Emile M. Cioran What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! Mark McKinney

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act

as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. William James I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting. Bernard Ebbers We support President Truman's civil rights program. Eugenie Anderson Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home. Sylvia Browne Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. Charles Churchill I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell. Matt Lucas I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life. Fidel Castro

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern

which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. Paul Tillich You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it. Miranda Richardson My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses. Alexander Scriabin I've never written a song that I thought was a hit. Richard Marx With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. Joseph Addison Storms make trees take deeper roots. Dolly Parton One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. Robert Kennedy

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way

through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further. Joan Chen Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. Robert Bridges Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. Jean de la Bruyere So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. Michael Chabon Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. Thomas Chandler Haliburton You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least

surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually. Yukihiro Matsumoto This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke Good government is good politics. Richard J. Daley To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father. Nick Lachey You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't. Sam Mendes First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III. Beau Bridges The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. Ann Landers

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with

the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution. John Moody There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. Marquis de Sade I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. Peter Benchley I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. Shannon Elizabeth Custom is second nature. Saint Augustine Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. Bryant H. McGill Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. Frank Lloyd Wright

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to

go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact. Sonny Rollins Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality. Bill Condon When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved. Loretta Swit I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey. Usher What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Francis Bacon When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Madame de Stael First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. Bill Condon

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe

our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren. Mitch McConnell I used to not back down from a challenge. Elizabeth Moon Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. Chester Bowles When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. Ezra Pound We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. Epicurus I have no formal culinary training, right. Thomas Keller No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. Frank Norris

This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the

aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country. Dave Obey But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair. Anthony Caro Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem. Robert H. Schuller In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. Paul McCartney There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Ronald Reagan Never pray for justice, because you might get some. Margaret Atwood

Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because

you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way. Will Ferrell The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. Joe Paterno Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Theodor Adorno I'm thrilled with my body of work. Chris Cooper The first cut is the deepest. Rod Stewart People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. Margaret Cho Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does. Michael Shermer

As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep

America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going to go after Osama bin Laden. We are not going to live in fear in this country. Wesley Clark The best of healers is good cheer. Pindar Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. Octavio Paz But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it. Dan Savage I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. Iris Chang When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads. John Turturro The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. Henry Ward Beecher

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that

their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President. Barbara Boxer I try to use my music to move these people to act. Jimi Hendrix Well I think effects are tools. Guillermo del Toro I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. Jessye Norman Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. Mahatma Gandhi It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Robert W. Service The only love affair I have ever had was with music. Maurice Ravel

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for

specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. Rick Moody I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing. Douglas Wilson Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. Tom Peters I believe in that connection between freedom and the city. George Woodcock When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. Walter Scott When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. Dick Gregory Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Arthur Schopenhauer

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always

dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones. Bai Ling Don't have a cow, man. Matt Groening I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs. Roberto Clemente Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself. Bo Bennett One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. Charles de Lint Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. Edward Kennedy The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. John Lyly

I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education

decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed. Linda Lingle Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work. Nicholas Sparks We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi A useless life is an early death. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. Oscar Wilde Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. Stendhal

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what

the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. David Amram I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. Rodney Dangerfield Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic. Aaron Allston Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. Roger Kahn Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. Thomas A. Edison Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. Richard M. Nixon We receive by faith and we keep it by faith. Benny Hinn

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he

has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step. Al Michaels Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. Marcus Tullius Cicero I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. Zell Miller I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. Jean Giraudoux You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. Louis Farrakhan Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now. Chris Kattan O, had I but followed the arts! William Shakespeare

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate

thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young. Kim Elizabeth It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. Carl von Clausewitz But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God? Edgar Bergen If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Thomas Paine For time is the longest distance between two places. Tennessee Williams I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach. Roma Downey The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. Vernor Vinge

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and

conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. Willa Cather I often shoot with scissors in my eyes. Allan Dwan Just do what you do best. Red Auerbach Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body. Joyce Cary There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. Howard Zinn We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. Charles de Montesquieu Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. Marcus Aurelius

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley

did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool. Wyclef Jean All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job. Julie Nixon Eisenhower If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. Napoleon Bonaparte One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. Thomas Wolfe What rights are those that dare not resist for them? Alfred Lord Tennyson May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. Robert A. Heinlein The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Walter Chrysler

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard

from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. Herman Hesse The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger. George W. Bush Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep. Howard Dean Only the sinner has the right to preach. Christopher Morley Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. Jean-Marie Le Pen The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. Alexis de Tocqueville I don't care who you are, you hear those boos. Mickey Mantle

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance

of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Desiderius Erasmus Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. Michael Badnarik Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Robert Frost Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. Charles Henry Parkhurst The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. Paul Watzlawick The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. Publilius Syrus I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind. Ednita Nazario

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand

until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it. Duke Snider This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time. Tom Ridge Thou shalt not ration justice. Learned Hand I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back. Charlotte Rae When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them. Allen Funt A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. Marion Zimmer Bradley I have to go... drop some kids in the pool. Jessica Simpson

Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our

nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream. Mel Martinez In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. Joseph Chamberlain All some folks want is their fair share and yours. Arnold H. Glasow Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. Alan Cohen Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much. Gordon Getty Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world. Ted Nugent The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to

go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. Anne Frank Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. Gilbert Parker You express different energies at different times in your life. Marisa Tomei When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. Eric Hoffer My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here. Nicholas Lea When I die India will be found engraved on my heart. Mary of Teck What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so

into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title. John Romero Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. Jeff Tweedy Composition has almost always been solitary. Wendy Carlos I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies. Esther Williams I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice. Cesar Romero Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy. Peta Wilson

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and

funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. Rick Perry Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore. Fran Drescher It is far easier to make war than peace. Georges Clemenceau I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope. Barbara Boxer Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds. Joseph Lancaster

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become

the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. Gunter Grass I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground. J. D. Salinger Virtue is insufficient temptation. George Bernard Shaw There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. Eric Allin Cornell To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Socrates Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. Peter Lynch

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and

another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential? James E. Rogers I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos. Alex Winter Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. Jean de la Bruyere I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels. Teena Marie I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them. Nancy Reagan The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. Arthur Schopenhauer First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood

and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. Lee Atwater Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. Katharine Hepburn I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.' Albert Brooks We are now after 7 months operation making money here. Henry Wells Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps. Jeremy Spencer I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. Frank Lloyd Wright

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or

administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. Rowan Williams That's life when you're on the D-list. Kathy Griffin I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment. Uma Thurman Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. J. K. Rowling Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser. Sandy Koufax If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. Anne Morrow Lindbergh You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation. James Daly

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness,

or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. Andrew Carnegie I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. Elizabeth Taylor Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. Henry Miller My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere. Nicolas Cage The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. Erich Fromm America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. Woodrow Wilson And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part. Billy Sheehan

You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good,

or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public. Celia Cruz It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. Arthur C. Clarke The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. Stephen Harper A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. Gabriel Garcia Marquez I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes. Edward Fitzgerald I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits. Juice Newton

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues

me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations. Rupert Holmes We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God. Bob Taft Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. Joseph Hume Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. Mark Twain This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. Jean Piaget 'He means well' is useless unless he does well. Plautus When trying to locate something, search your mind first. Craig Bruce

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the

same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy. Emeril Lagasse It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians. Frank Morgan Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. Henry Kissinger The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. William Wordsworth Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. Billie Holiday Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. Mahatma Gandhi

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a

man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view! Martin Bormann I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited. John Travolta Ignorance is always afraid of change. Jawaharlal Nehru I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season. Keith Hernandez An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Thomas Paine I have never voted in my life. Andres Serrano For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. Margaret Mead

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from

there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease. Dominic Monaghan It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. Joseph Conrad O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! Joseph Banks Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't. Ani DiFranco The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none. Eden Phillpotts A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. Alistair Cooke Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. William Butler Yeats

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or

even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Robert A. Heinlein There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. George Steiner I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us. Steve Brown So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company. John Lone Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. Harry Harrison A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation. Publilius Syrus Few, save the poor, feel for the poor. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is

the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay. Bob Barker A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was. Jim Sullivan No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. Rush Limbaugh It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons. Sadie Frost The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. Madame de Stael My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. Rodney Dangerfield The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. Ralph Waldo Emerson

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer

a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21. Charles Bass Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. Golda Meir You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. Barbara Kingsolver Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? Leonardo da Vinci Every people should be originators of their own destiny. Martin Delany A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. Cat Stevens

It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the

1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco. Allen Boyd You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance. William Cavendish I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere. Roy Acuff Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished. Elsa Maxwell No man is a hero in his own country. John Monash All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies. Tina Louise

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science

writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. William Gibson Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. Dean Koontz I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music. Vinnie Vincent There is a point at which methods devour themselves. Frantz Fanon If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something. Barry Mann Our first and last love is self-love. Christian Nestell Bovee I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy. Tim Vine

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more

informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble. Emmylou Harris I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on. Leslie Caron But I thought love would more than prevail. David Gest Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind. Herbert Beerbohm Tree I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me. Ann Sothern Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. Evan Davis

Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain

compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted. Stephen Wolfram Suffer little children and come unto me. Evita Peron The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest! Henry Home There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man. Reginald Maudling First appearance deceives many. Ovid Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. Brad Holland There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. Kenneth Lay

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong -

stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still. Tom Daschle Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. Andre Norton It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it. Antoine Rivarol We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. John Florio Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Jean de la Bruyere My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. Arthur Rock

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than

twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside. Zell Miller My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. James Rainwater To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Alexander Pope I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me. Melanie Griffith We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. Ralph Waldo Emerson It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him. Ruth Ellis

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very

rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany. Thomas Kretschmann Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. Abraham Cowley No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. James Allen Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover. Shakira To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. Baltasar Gracian My light shines when things get really tough. Tippi Hedren Make your life a mission - not an intermission. Arnold H. Glasow

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage

of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. Alanis Morissette Phil is a real drummer's drummer. Colin Greenwood When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Robert Anthony I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action. Randy West He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. Yogi Berra The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. Muhammad Iqbal I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. Muhammad Iqbal

People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised,

but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me. Adam Garcia Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.' Barry Took If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work. Gil Kane When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda. Elizabeth Joan Smith My mother is a walking miracle. Leonardo DiCaprio If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. Rudyard Kipling

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order

to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? Dennis Prager Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. Abu Bakr When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. Hermann Hesse Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors. Jay Leno A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Margaret Atwood I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well. Juliette Lewis I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. Graham Nash

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest

pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. John Henry Newman Care more than others think wise. Howard Schultz The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. Gore Vidal What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. Richard Foreman Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. Joseph Conrad I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. Henry James I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set. Victoria Pratt

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to

all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. Ruth St. Denis I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights. Joseph Force Crater I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me. Jean Racine In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. Thomas Carlyle Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. William Lamb Melbourne A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. John Milton You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot. Ben Stein

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word

'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys. Bryan Brown Great causes and little men go ill together. Jawaharlal Nehru Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations. Achille Maramotti Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. Jonathan Coe Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. Cotton Mather Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. Alexander Pope I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you

were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. Anthony Edwards Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas Huxley The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie. Brian Roberts The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat. Max Aitken There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities. Arlen Specter Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. James Ellroy I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. Patricia Clarkson

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