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The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in

now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. Norman Rockwell There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. Peter Weir Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. Jean Cocteau Action is the antidote to despair. Joan Baez The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts. James Cash Penney Even the worst book can give us something to think about. Wislawa Szymborska I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I. Loretta Young

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it

local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions. Linda Lingle I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant. Joan D. Vinge He that won't be counseled can't be helped. Benjamin Franklin Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. Thomas Dekker When a man's willing and eager the god's join in. Aeschylus To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. Emile M. Cioran

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just

turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy. Eric McCormack If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. Pete Fountain Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. Johann G. Seume It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people. Victoria Pratt How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. Oscar Wilde It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered. Damon Hill In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility. Nicolaus Copernicus

Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track,

you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy. Eddie Campbell Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? E. O. Wilson Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. Anthony Hecht We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens. Bob Ehrlich Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience. Ed Townsend One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. John Kenneth Galbraith I have always liked a challenge. Damon Hill

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in

our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. Johnny Depp We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries. Townsend Harris Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability. Russell Mark It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet. Uma Thurman Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck Enthusiasm moves the world. Arthur Balfour A man is not good or bad for one action. Thomas Fuller

I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political

machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country. John Edwards A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. Lee R. Raymond The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. George Crumb The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build. Thomas Keller Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. Lord Byron I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. Steven Wright I don't care what people think. people are stupid. Charles Barkley

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all

the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies. James Patterson When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time. Drew Barrymore You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it. Joy Page Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. Marshall McLuhan I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. Robert Crumb Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward. Bill Shuster I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that. Kenneth Edmonds

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play

at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw. Cal Hubbard I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized. Robert Blake Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. Charles Dickens The resolved mind hath no cares. George Herbert What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room. Andy Kaufman You have to look at history as an evolution of society. Jean Chretien

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of

them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. Ted Nugent Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can. Anne Bancroft I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule. Juan Gris I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. John Ensign As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts. Theo Van Gogh I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre. Thomas Jane Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. Thomas Carlyle

I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I

need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more. Danica Patrick I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. Wilma Mankiller The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations. Aleksander Kwasniewski I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss. Dizzy Dean Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. Henry Miller A boy is naturally full of humor. Robert Powell

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they

do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. Tom Allen If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. Alfred P. Sloan Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. William Hazlitt The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy! Larry Williams The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. Claude Debussy I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. Douglas Adams Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person

to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you. Bob Riley If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters. Helen Clark I have nothing to hide. Linda Tripp I think I do better when things are a little tougher. Richard Marx We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play. Santiago Durango Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat. John Eaton We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? Robert Plant

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into

the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country. Richard Perle I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. Diane Arbus Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected. Peter Camejo The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. Matt Blunt If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. Howard Zinn What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. Jean Cocteau Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. David Thewlis

The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're

advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads. Michael D. Barnes I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.' Lee Child Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously. Sydney Madwed It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other. Ann Wilson As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. Francis Bacon Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too. Terry McAuliffe One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. Jane Austen

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip;

to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. Paulo Coelho With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem. Burke Marshall I'm on every worst-dressed list imaginable. Kathy Griffin Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. Theophile Gautier What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. Terri Windling Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. Sam Peckinpah Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. Shelley Winters

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived

for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. Archibald MacLeish Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case. Peter Scott I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. Henry David Thoreau Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. Ralph Waldo Emerson The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. Pietro Mascagni Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. Theodore White

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to

make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. Lusia Strus Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. Michael Korda Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. Mark Twain Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. Jonathan Swift I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. Hugo Chavez I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me. Vincent Gallo A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. Christopher Wren

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a

secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980. William Odom The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. Charles Bass It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. Herbie Hancock Every failure is a step to success. William Whewell I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character. Robert Englund The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. Harry S Truman The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. Helen Rowland

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with

the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. Jim Capaldi By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. Yukio Mishima Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Marcus Aurelius History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. Donald Kagan I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not. Henry Alford Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. William Blake

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our

troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it. Christopher Shays Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. Jared Diamond We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations. John Walker Lindh You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. Navjot Singh Sidhu I like to share my life, and spend time with someone I love. That has worked 100 per cent with my wife. Michael Schumacher You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher. Jeffery Deaver

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids

running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. Russell Simmons If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. Paul Bremer Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. Joseph Roux We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Zbigniew Brzezinski I'm not involved with the female world. John Lone Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing

Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. Barbra Streisand I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up. Amanda Holden The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. Albert Einstein Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. Plato In economics, the majority is always wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. Milton Glaser You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. John Lennon

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became

Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. Mitch Kapor The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being. James G. Frazer I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you. Tre Cool There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political. Earle Brown In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes No man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. Barbara Walters

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor

sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years. James Randi Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Vladimir Lenin Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. Susan Powter You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily. Peter Porter The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do. Dick Wolf Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life. Stephan Jenkins Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. Ruth Park

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in

the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past. Charles Edison The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. Walter Benjamin Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager. Anna Kournikova Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. Thomas Jefferson When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. Albert Camus

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to

book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! Edgar Bergen The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. Ashley Montagu Peeves do not make very good pets. Bo Bennett I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion. Stephen Harper Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley Laws, like houses, lean on one another. Edmund Burke Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. Herbert Hoover

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what

could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. John Yoo I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation. Geoffrey Rush I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me. John Perkins All pitchers are liars or crybabies. Yogi Berra Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. Derek Bailey An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. Will Rogers Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is

free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. Kate Millett I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio. Frank Rich I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. Sun Myung Moon Order is heaven's first law. Alexander Pope What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? W. Clement Stone The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs. Marianne Faithfull I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable. La Monte Young

The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer

generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art. Steven Levy For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people. Allen Weinstein Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. W. H. Auden We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race. Hal Boyle Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game. George Halas The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. Francois de La Rochefoucauld People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. Ezra Pound

It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive

for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads. Scott McCallum The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. Thomas Aquinas Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. Matthew Green Knowledge and human power are synonymous. Francis Bacon I think the United States is way behind the times. Christopher Atkins Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. Paul Samuelson The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat. Ogden Nash

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks

he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community. Joe Lieberman That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds. James Lee Burke So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue. Mitchell Reiss The world remains ever the same. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. James Lane Allen My family gave me the best in education. William Standish Knowles

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory

until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium. John Moody Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information. E. Franklin Frazier We never really wanted to play in California. Santiago Durango If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Benjamin Franklin We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement. Candice S. Miller People aren't born racist. Edward Furlong

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel

reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources. Greg Walden Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. Robert Louis Stevenson We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business. Fred L. Turner No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. Shakti Gawain The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. Norman Vincent Peale Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. Vince Lombardi

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing

that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party. Chuck Schumer I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. Steven Wright I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. Jawaharlal Nehru I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out. Leo Kottke We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final. Robert Jackson

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It

is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them. Ted Stevens Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did. Latrell Sprewell I'm not afraid to look like an idiot. Anthony Bourdain I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. Soren Kierkegaard Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Hannah Arendt Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just

about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. James Cagney If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. William James My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. George Washington The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences. Jean-Jacques Rousseau I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs. Jack Bowman A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval. Barbara Walters As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future. Alison Lurie

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are

particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things. Nick Cave I am a kamikaze gadfly. Mo Rocca The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. James K. Polk Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. Victor Hugo I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful. Nigella Lawson Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old. Lisa Leslie Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are. Barbara De Angelis

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that

armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene. Jeff Cooper Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair. Brian Clough It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. Wilson Mizner I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. David Livingstone Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them. Paul Morand Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. Charles Caleb Colton I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic. Peter Ustinov

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I

loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things. Ricky Williams We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools. David Selby Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. Clifford Stoll No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. Horatio Nelson Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. George W. Bush Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. Billy Graham I want to do movies but not talk about them. Nastassja Kinski

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men -

particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis. Oswald Mosley How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? Auberon Herbert There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks. Alyson Hannigan It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. Voltaire Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine One should eat to live, not live to eat. Moliere One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage. Frank Langella

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at

the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation. Sonny Perdue There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. Jean-Marie Le Pen To us marriage is first, everything else is second. Julie Benz It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on. J. T. Walsh There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. Henry James Old maids do not mind giving people trouble. Thomas Nelson Page If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde

It all comes back to the same place, whether she does well, I do well,

or we both do well, which is obviously what we're hoping for. It's all good. You know? We're definitely pull for each other. Nick Lachey Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. Jim Morrison I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose. Reggie Jackson This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. Brian Perkins The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. Jimmy Swaggart The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are. Thomas Szasz Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it. Brian Austin Green

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which

was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done. Matthew Bourne I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work. Gregory Hines Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. James Thurber I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. W. C. Fields A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Manfred Eigen I am talking about misery and all of its implications. Juan Rulfo I have such an image of a mafioso. Paul Sorvino

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have

come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal. Max Schmeling We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything. Francis John McConnell One fool at least in every married couple. Henry Fielding I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good. Jonathan Frakes If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. Dean Koontz All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate. Algernon Sidney It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc. Roger Maris

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and

assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction. Iris Chang I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it. Larry Bird Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. Paul Gauguin Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited. Richard Roxburgh She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. P. G. Wodehouse Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here. Cesar Romero I quit driving, I'm not retired. Richard Petty

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we

find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. Loren Eiseley Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. Mortimer Adler Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Reinhold Niebuhr I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run. Kristen Johnston CART is one of the safest racing series in the world. Michael Andretti Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. Claude Bernard Liberation is not deliverance. Victor Hugo

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the

old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. H. L. Mencken I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am. Stuart Pearce I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering. Mary Crosby The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. Napoleon Bonaparte It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Epictetus He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling. Max Baer The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. Havelock Ellis

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through

them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth. Morihei Ueshiba Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting? Thomas Kretschmann I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. Judy Garland Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him. Marguerite Young One crime has to be concealed by another. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. Joseph McCabe

I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated

with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at. Chris Bailey Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. Jonathan Swift Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going. Wanda Sykes As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. Isabelle Holland Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. Faith Baldwin I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. Miranda Richardson Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? Nicholson Baker

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior,

attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. Michel de Montaigne Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people. Matt Blunt I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. Letitia Elizabeth Landon The media's job is to question a premise. Joey Skaggs Marriage, even the best marriages are tough. Jayne Meadows No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. William Temple Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? Jules Feiffer

And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in

Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals. John Perkins Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. Denis Waitley I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I? Edgar Bergen There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed. Natan Sharansky Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired. Lou Holtz Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff. Sally Schneider

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but

it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American. Kenneth Edmonds We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party. Eddie Bernice Johnson There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. Cat Stevens If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing. Peter Steele Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. Fran Lebowitz I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe. Craig Bruce The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Otto Hermann Kahn

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more

alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. Alexis de Tocqueville Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. Vita Sackville-West All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. Forster Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. Anita Loos All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. George Eliot Study first, play afterwards. Daniel D. Palmer

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older

than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method. Frederick Sanger We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships. Gale Norton Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have. Russell Simmons Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance. Dennis Kucinich I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Winston Churchill

I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together

in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long. Graham Nash To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. Fernando Pessoa Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding. Wolf Blitzer Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God. Abu Bakr We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. John Engler For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. Robert A. Heinlein Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to

repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Abraham Lincoln My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. Barbara Stanwyck I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment. Lee Child Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. Peter Drucker I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life. Jane Byrne Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. Thomas Jefferson All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also.

The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now. Jeffrey Sachs There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Winston Churchill You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan. Bob Dole Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. Henri Poincare And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me. Ednita Nazario Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? Tom G. Palmer

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every

student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation. Conrad Burns Women will change the corporation more than we expect. Anita Borg Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. Swami Sivananda Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. Herman Kahn I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old. Cathy Freeman I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too. Bill Joy God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction. Swami Sivananda

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to

do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy. George Sidney Every man of courage is a man of his word. Pierre Corneille The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. John Mortimer There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything. Whitey Ford Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'. George Colman I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. Newt Gingrich All I can do is be me, whoever that is. Bob Dylan

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient

Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. Northrop Frye And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. George Eliot The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. Al Smith If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. Kazuo Ishiguro The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building. Benito Mussolini I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways. Laurie Lee

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a

tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life. David Amram Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. Thomas Aquinas To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Douglas Adams Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. Don Marquis We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. John Lennon If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. Jimmy Durante I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong. Bernard Ebbers

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people

in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials. Garry Kasparov A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead. James Randi I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder. Hugh Jackman The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. Barney Oliver My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good. Patrick Dempsey And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. Robert Burns He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. Beilby Porteus

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in

terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation. Denzil Douglas A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. Sydney J. Harris The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. Jean de la Bruyere To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. Heraclitus The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. Francoise Sagan You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. Chris Evert Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? Harold Pinter

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place

that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball. Andy Goldsworthy The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. Walter Lippmann You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself. Julia Roberts If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? Steven Wright There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently. Mitchell Reiss All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. Charles Henry Parkhurst Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. Jim Rohn

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to

fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. Charles Kettering Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall. Walter Hill I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake. Pierre Laval Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophia Loren The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them? Frank Chodorov These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want. Steve Hackett All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. Samuel Butler

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look

elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments. Anna Lee I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. John Cleveland What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems. Duke Snider Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream. Virginia Foxx It was a labor of love and they did really well. Ian Hunter Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. Abu Bakr

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering

woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. Muammar al-Gaddafi Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. Sextus Propertius When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it. Owen Hart A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you. Lou Holtz Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am. Kate Winslet I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world. Taliesin Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody. Sean Combs

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at

least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum. Joseph Lancaster Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth. Lee Scott If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. M. Esther Harding You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. John Barrymore A church debt is the devil's salary. Henry Ward Beecher I love the confidence that makeup gives me. Tyra Banks You can't leave civilization behind entirely. Dirk Benedict

I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the

Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up. James Woods It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. Logan Pearsall Smith I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on. Elizabeth Taylor To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something. Tucker Carlson Socialism values equality more than liberty. Dennis Prager There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability. Thomas Jane

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your

friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it. Robert Urich Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single. Alice Cary The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic. Mel Gibson Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. Stephen Leacock Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex. Yasmine Bleeth Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. Ovid The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. Jeffery Deaver

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life

seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. Timothy Leary I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing. Brad Dourif Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Fyodor Dostoevsky The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. George Burns It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes. Bo Bennett Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. Zig Ziglar I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again. Lee Remick

I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's

not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it. Vanilla Ice It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers. Pam Grier I tend to wear outfits that match the walls. Debra Winger The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. William Godwin There is no index of character so sure as the voice. Benjamin Disraeli There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. Louis Pasteur The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. William Falconer

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in

touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. Steve Ballmer If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone. Franz Kline I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go. Broderick Crawford Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then. Jerry Lee Lewis Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. Benjamin Disraeli The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. Reinhold Niebuhr I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. Ambrose Bierce

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think

they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved. bell hooks Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe. Joel Madden Man, an animal that makes bargains. A. C. Benson Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Aristotle My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian. Paulina Porizkova The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. Faye Wattleton Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Walter Scott

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and

my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them. David Attenborough A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. Don Marquis I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey. Treat Williams One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation. Janez Drnovsek At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. George Carlin It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting. Margaret Hamilton Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. Abraham Cowley

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second,

that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries. Natan Sharansky My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre. Moira Kelly If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. Barry McCaffrey Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. Michael Korda As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. Arthur Cayley The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cheever Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Joyce Brothers

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's

slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation. Art Bell People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. Carmen Electra I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out. Scott McCallum If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch? Aiden Wilson Tozer Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. Arthur Henderson A comprehended god is no god. John Chrysostom My definition of success is control. Kenneth Branagh

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe

we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. Strom Thurmond What we resist persists. Sonia Johnson My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. Tom Stoppard We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake. Eric Roberts Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. Steven Pinker The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. Henry Ward Beecher Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. John Steinbeck

I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto

a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar. Chester Brown Look, a lot of women would be turned off with hearing me say how hot I think Brad Pitt is! Know what I mean? So I probably don't help my cause. Ryan Seacrest Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick. Johnny Rivers The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try. Charles Kettering It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's. Heather Mills Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course. Wally Lamb There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. Loretta Young

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material

to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. Gregor Mendel We need realism to deal with reality. Slick Rick Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened. Joe Cocker Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. Bob Hope I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Edward Elgar To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. Henry Kissinger There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. Jackie Kennedy

We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made

by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat. John Warner This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. D. H. Lawrence We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead. Morning Star If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. William E. Gladstone Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. Napoleon Bonaparte The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it. Hesiod

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years

after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth. John Griffin Carlisle Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable. Rand Beers First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. Donald Rumsfeld She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal. Thomas Nelson Page Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. Thomas Carlyle There is creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Jules Renard

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know,

except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them. Mark Morris Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of. Josh Lucas Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. Max Planck If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook. Sidney Blumenthal If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first. Kurt Cobain When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off. Vanna White It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come

to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are. Harold Rosenberg I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain. Ben Kingsley The snake will always bite back. Jake Roberts Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing. Billy Baldwin Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound. Beth Gibbons Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them. James Cash Penney I don't like to direct myself. Vic Morrow

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that

you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million. Herb Alpert I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants. Pat Sajak All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. Lance Armstrong Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. Frederick Douglass I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair. Sadie Frost A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. Isaac Asimov

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth

- look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it. Jerry Bruckheimer Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Francis Bacon The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. Henri Frederic Amiel I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them. Thomas Keller There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. Charles Baudelaire Life well spent is long. Leonardo da Vinci

Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are

opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody. Jeff Garcia Those are the men who will dance at your wedding. Guy Madison There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything. Fred Ward It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller. Ed Wood A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. Bob Dylan Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? Jane D. Hull I like America to some extent. Michael Moore

I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in

Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something. Mike Farrell Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Peter De Vries Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. Elizabeth Bowen He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. Gene Fowler I am easily satisfied with the very best. Winston Churchill The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist. Marion Barry Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Jane Austen

I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys,

because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us. Latrell Sprewell We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. Steve Ballmer That was something. As opposed to nothing. Kevin Ayers Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. Robert Peel It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it? Dan Simmons The human race has improved everything, but the human race. Adlai E. Stevenson I invent nothing, I rediscover. Auguste Rodin

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people,

depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. John Acton It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. Aristotle A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. Henry James I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. Laura Linney Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Oscar Wilde In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over. Vince McMahon The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world. Marie de France

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to

conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. John Lennon The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking. Beau Bridges I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. Marcus Tullius Cicero What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? George Bernard Shaw I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. Harvey S. Firestone What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? W. H. Davies You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. Ernest Hemingway

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a

minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. Craig Ferguson Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. Jim Sensenbrenner The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. John Tuley God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. Russell Crowe Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. Khalil Gibran Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Donald Trump Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. Dianne Feinstein

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men.

Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Friedrich Nietzsche Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. William Shakespeare If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow. Celia Cruz In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. John Millington Synge What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli Today's marijuana is also twice as strong as it was in the mid 80's. John Walters There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. Thomas Szasz

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great

Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare. John Moody If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. Loren Eiseley I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps. James Cash Penney I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover. Beth Gibbons The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents. George Whitefield I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years. David Cross America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde

It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the

edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways. Owen Hart I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches. Pete Sampras Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. Mencius The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word. Mark Twain Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Eric Hoffer I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. Donald Trump The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. David Price

I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making

the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day. Tara Strong Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? George C. Wallace Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. Ramakrishna Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. Percy Bysshe Shelley There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Jane Austen It could potentially be a very competitive race. Bill Luther Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. Carl Andre

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets

called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down. Richard M. Daley I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. Orson Welles The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development. Frederick Jackson Turner Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. David Hunt Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success. Paul J. Meyer Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. Thomas Carlyle But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership. Martin McGuinness

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient

will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La Rochefoucauld And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment. Jason Statham For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. Thomas Carlyle People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw. Bill Lee Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together. Brad Henry There's more to life than cheek bones. Kate Winslet The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. John Burroughs

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance

and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. Robert Falcon Scott I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class. Tucker Carlson As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. Jack Abramoff You give before you get. Napoleon Hill He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. John Dryden I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read. Nina Blackwood Electricity is really just organized lightning. George Carlin

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words

have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below. Rebecca Harding Davis I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky. Tommy Lasorda My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won. Betty Cuthbert We are all alike, on the inside. Mark Twain I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is. Will Durst Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Benjamin Franklin There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. John Kenneth Galbraith

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who

are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them. Auberon Herbert Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions. William Hamilton Maxwell Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible. Walter Lang Change is inevitable. Change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something. Douglas Horton We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B. F. Skinner Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. Julia Margaret Cameron

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