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I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies

in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise. Cole Younger Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. B. B. King We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people. Paul Castellano Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Lester Bangs There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned. Sanjay Kumar I don't want to write, I'd rather draw. Eddie Campbell No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. Dick Morris

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do

truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Nelson Goodman We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live. Mary-Kate Olsen We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. Maya Angelou Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you. Scott Weiland Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. Omar N. Bradley Art is the daughter of freedom. Friedrich Schiller The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. Bertrand Russell

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy

of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. William Godwin What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people. Ted Shackelford I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need. Uma Thurman I find pleasure in things that are simple. Stephan Jenkins I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now. Megan Gallagher Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. Edward Albert I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything. Karen Morley

In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is

stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda. Chen Shui-bian I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy. Jack Nicklaus The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. Julius Charles Hare The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. Knute Rockne Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. Samuel Johnson There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. Mahatma Gandhi One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli

We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a

real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible. Sean William Scott We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did! Susan Powter Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility. Bernard Law Montgomery We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. Desmond Tutu We are all in this together, by ourselves. Lily Tomlin Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. Frank Lloyd Wright I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass. Tracy Kidder

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to

let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. Keith Haring To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. Jose Marti It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways. Glenn Close The discontented man finds no easy chair. Benjamin Franklin Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. Percy Bysshe Shelley To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. Noah Taylor The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't

know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing. Tim LaHaye People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time. Dick Wolf My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. William Godwin Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. Charles Reade I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules. Gary Ackerman Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. Christian Nestell Bovee I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember. Joaquin Phoenix

One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was

the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st. Clement Attlee Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. Voltaire If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. John Abercrombie Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Edward de Bono When I get mean, I get mean. Mick Mars I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. Jeffrey Archer I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that. Stevie Nicks

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and

behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit. Robert Fortune The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. Andy Goldsworthy But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. Edmond About A lot of what acting is paying attention. Nancy Reagan A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results. Ella Wheeler Wilcox The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. Ferdinand Foch I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off. Tom Welling

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that

I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me. Elliott Carter If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries. George Crumb People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad. Nigella Lawson I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. Robert Frost Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. Friedrich Schiller I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. Michael Ondaatje Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man. Peter Abrahams

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and

one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair. Michael Cunningham I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. Franco Nero My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please. Frederick the Great Avarice is the vice of declining years. George Bancroft Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. Barbara De Angelis Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. Peter Wright You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so

long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance. Patrick Gordon It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot. Michael Kennedy What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us. Michael Schiavo To feel at home, stay at home. Clifton Fadiman There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. Otto von Bismarck A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. Jonathan Swift Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that

goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place. Tobey Maguire Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Eugene Field Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company. Michael Bergdahl Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. Francis Quarles I think that every single person should play sports. Donovan Bailey I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies. Robert De Niro I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. John Eaton

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm

not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to. Buddy Guy One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. Jean Cocteau We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. Dean Acheson The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience. Michael Palin The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something. Ed Wood There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality

there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. Suzanne Vega The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. Lionel Trilling I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least. Chester Brown Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. T. Boone Pickens For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it. Utada Hikaru Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more. Ossie Davis

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend

so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. H. L. Mencken If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. Helen Keller There is no sin except stupidity. Oscar Wilde I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh? Nicholas Sparks I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer. Rachel Griffiths If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. Irving Babbitt

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.

One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. Robert Louis Stevenson The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. Arundhati Roy My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did. Phil McGraw Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love. Candace Cameron Bure For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? Lord Byron Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Charles Dickens

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you

least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name. Rob Zombie I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. Frank McCourt We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. Dwight L. Moody How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for. Terence The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. Saadi But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself. Jane Fonda Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no. Emanuel Azenberg

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they

actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. Eric Allin Cornell Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public? Bill Wyman In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture. Yahoo Serious Common sense is genius in homespun. Alfred North Whitehead New York is the great stone desert. Israel Zangwill It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes. Linda Evans

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600

people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. Hunter S. Thompson We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings? Brian Greene You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you. George Whitefield In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content. Utada Hikaru None think the great unhappy, but the great. Edward Young I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out. Martin Milner It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. David Duchovny

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think,

plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck. Donald Rumsfeld Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. Adrienne Clarkson What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon? David R. Brower Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. Margaret Thatcher I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you. Michelle Trachtenberg Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino I play a detective, very close to myself actually. Jon Voight

Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe

countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there. Michael Scheuer The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. Elias Canetti We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns. Ben Nelson Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. Peter Ustinov Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. Tracy Kidder Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. Bill Cosby A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. Jean de La Fontaine

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life

back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more. Harvey Martin One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well. Ed Rendell New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire. Joseph Sobran The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts. Virginia Foxx

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet

is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. Laurence Olivier Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. Dag Hammarskjold The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. Peter Drucker It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone. Jerry Costello The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. Walt Whitman The precondition to freedom is security. Rand Beers

There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete

with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am! Bob Mould The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution. Christopher Dawson There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over. Margaret Haddix There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. Gilbert K. Chesterton Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. Edward Gibbon I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage. Aretha Franklin Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. Yogi Berra

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest

life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. Frederick William Robertson At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years. William Standish Knowles I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling? Tommy Bond Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. Bertrand Russell Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. Pauline Kael We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they

We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa

Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research. Abraham Robinson If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about. Carlos Santana Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day. Oscar de la Renta Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. E. O. Wilson Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition. Arthur Lydiard Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it. Daniel Pinkwater

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers

and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places. Richard Benjamin Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that. James Marsters Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. Saul Bellow I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being. Hamid Karzai I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store. Lita Ford Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Laurence J. Peter He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. Don Hewitt

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should

not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now. David R. Brower Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable. Barbara Boxer Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. Edward Dahlberg Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Zedong Just believe in what you're doing, and keep doing it. Ricky Nelson There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Maya Angelou It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful. Tanya Tucker

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager.

The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. Rudolf Bing The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo. John Yoo Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. William Butler Yeats Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs. Phil Bredesen The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. Irving Babbitt In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson? Catherine McCormack

Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going

to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that. Gerard Butler Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights. Cole Younger I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well. Billy Koch The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. Elbert Hubbard The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. Pablo Picasso With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there. Brian McBride

In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support

legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries. Jerry Costello My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers. Stevie Nicks I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere. Russell Simmons Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Mark Twain I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities. Iris Chang I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. Mary Douglas But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. Ezra Stiles

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not

devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. Lucius Annaeus Seneca You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better. Dennis Quaid I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books. James Ellroy There's no religion but sex and music. Sting You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. Ilya Ehrenburg The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction. Dominic West This world's a bubble. Saint Augustine

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is

entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve. Debra Messing To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. Charles Eames It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty. Chuck Schumer Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going. David Cone Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. Thomas A. Edison Use, don't abuse. Grace Jones Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. Walker Evans

The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too

much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water. Leonard Orr The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. Vaclav Havel I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. Vint Cerf Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade. Craig Bruce He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. Dylan Thomas Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user. Pat Sajak In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. Christiane Amanpour

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I

became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. Arnold Schwarzenegger Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. Marcus Aurelius No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. Booker T. Washington What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God. B. R. Hayden We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd. Bill Condon Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal. Rupert Grint

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he

will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower. Robert Fortune To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. James A. Baldwin One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. Fyodor Dostoevsky Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. Remy de Gourmont So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing. Crystal Gayle If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends. Joan Jett

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late,

in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. P. T. Barnum In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. R. A. Butler The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. Pope Benedict XVI If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. Tracy Kidder I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. Herb Caen The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. Alma Guillermoprieto In my end is my beginning. Mary Queen of Scots

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much

hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions. Dorothy Denning I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful. Ricky Schroder When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. George Santayana It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. Michael Ondaatje My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. Josh Billings

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other

countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. Sarah Bernhardt It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity. Mike Peters I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution. Ben Nighthorse Campbell We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. Gloria Steinem This young century will be liberty's century. George W. Bush Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret. Marlene Dietrich I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii. Linda Lingle

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money

- a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day. Sibel Edmonds Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community. Said Musa In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care. Victoria Pratt In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. Tom C. Clark Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. Jean Baudrillard Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. Thomas Hood There are some remedies worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus

We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance

to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year. Sterling Marlin I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do. Richard Price It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God. Abu Bakr We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal. William Kempe Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did. Ja

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes

have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. Sydney Pollack While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. Ethan Allen The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. Sydney Madwed Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce. John Hoeven The love of heaven makes one heavenly. William Shakespeare If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. Ausonius We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany. Gerhard Schroder

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the

teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. Katharine Hepburn Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process. Nancy Pelosi The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do! Phil McGraw Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go. James Van Allen Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will. Samuel Rutherford Acorns were good until bread was found. Francis Bacon I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale. James Cash Penney

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely

important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. George Crumb People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. Marcel Dionne I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul. John B. S. Haldane Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. Theodore Parker I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs. Traian Basescu It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught. Knute Nelson

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe

from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied. Jeff Buckley Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy. Jennifer Aniston I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it. Margaret Atwood Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. William Barclay I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there? Vince Lombardi Whenever possible, I operate outside the system. Andres Serrano I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. Jimmy Page

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the

bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. Lawrence G. Lovasik The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm. Gay Talese Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. Robert Blair Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right. Robert Anthony To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. George Orwell Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. Joseph Addison Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. Oscar Wilde

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of

them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. Susan Griffin Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. John Lennon Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots. Rob Schneider There is no original truth, only original error. Gaston Bachelard An apology might help, but you can change your life without one. Robin Quivers Reason is God's crowning gift to man. Sophocles Thrift is of great revenue. Marcus Tullius Cicero

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open

to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good. Barbra Streisand I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. Kevin J. Anderson I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child. Dick Francis Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. William Cowper I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept w

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious

injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States. William Blum I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values. Winthrop Rockefeller I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. George Woodcock I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs. Bob Livingston No state legislature ever built a great university. James E. Rogers You aren't going to leave me alone are you? Edie Adams Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. Andrew Greeley

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility

for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. Blanche Lincoln Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. John McCarthy Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. Benjamin Franklin God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born. Francis W. Newman I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen. Edwin Edwards She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next. Iggy Pop

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is

packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement. Kenneth Williams The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change. Connie Mack This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. Charles Olson I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. Tre Cool Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. Fay Weldon Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles I'd like to do a romantic comedy. Aaron Eckhart

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion

and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Lyndon B. Johnson I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done. Bill Nighy I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. Robert Mueller I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though. Roger Tory Peterson To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. Henri Bergson I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking. Alex Winter Where there's a will - there's a relative! Ricky Gervais

The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I

go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. Tobey Maguire As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love. Ruth St. Denis In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on. Thomas Frank Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Voltaire Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. John Wilkins It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. John L. Phillips To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. Confucius

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in

American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. Alice Hamilton If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. Honore de Balzac It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future. Pam Grier I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil. Michelle Shocked The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. Joshua Reynolds The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. Theodore Roosevelt Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally

racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do. Sean William Scott I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. Marilyn Hacker I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all. Frank Dobson Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. Phillip Adams I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy. Cristiano Ronaldo In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.' Tom Lehrer The heart is forever inexperi

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over

the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. Patricia Ireland Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something. Joe Lieberman Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. John Erskine To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. Basil Bunting Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. Anna Jameson Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in. Azar Nafisi I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom. Samuel Goldwyn

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise,

too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals. Bill Richardson He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation. Margaret Halsey We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. Ray Kurzweil Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. George Saunders Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around. Mitchell Baker Have I gone too far? Kathy Griffin I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody. Joan Chen

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in

the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. Paul Sarbanes I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them. Kevin J. Anderson 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. Antony Jay Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. Robert Louis Stevenson Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me. Dinah Sheridan God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. Mark Twain Corruption never has been compulsory. Anthony Eden

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire

to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. Johnny Ball I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12. Gail Porter Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. Marguerite Yourcenar You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. Rebecca Harding Davis The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. Jonathan Coe Traffic was very, very free. It was great. Jim Capaldi You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing. Richard M. Daley

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to

do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities. Michael Dell And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject. David Gest I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly. Juliette Lewis Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself. David Horowitz I never thought anything like that would have gone on. Bernard Ebbers They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults. Jay London First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl. Marion Barry

What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation

people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest. Norm Dicks I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. Roger Tory Peterson I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. John D. Rockefeller Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. Alexander Pope Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind! Jeff Healey You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. Robert Frost It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you. Suzy Bogguss

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had

before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. Peter Lewis Allen The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. Colin Powell My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. Susan Lucci We'll probably have to play the perfect game. Tim Buckley Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe. Gerhard Schroder I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. Les Dawson They think they have God Almighty by the toe. Ludovico Ariosto

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that

time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff. Deidre Hall Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. Jean-Paul Sartre It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work. E. F. Schumacher The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. Mark Twain The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. Luis Bunuel The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama. Mohammed O

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and

large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. Frank Stella Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch. Craig Kilborn Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt Trouble shared is trouble halved. Lee Iacocca Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. Booth Tarkington I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. Ted Stevens

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as

real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects. Victoria Pratt If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. Lao Tzu I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it? Jeff Beck The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. Kurt Vonnegut To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. John Ruskin No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. Victor Hugo Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. Michel Foucault

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on

all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. Sigmund Freud It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it. Daisy Donovan Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. Robert M. La Follette After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. Bertha von Suttner Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Publilius Syrus In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss. Edward Bennett Williams Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Benjamin Disraeli

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe.

I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well. A. J. McLean The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery. William Falconer I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. Friedrich August von Hayek I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while. Richard Farnsworth We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family. Hans Kung Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. John D. Rockefeller We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. J

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons

for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. Charles Edward Merriam Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' Cesare Lombroso We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. William Hazlitt Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. John Donne Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock. Paul D. Boyer A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard. John Webster A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation. Hayden Christensen

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first

place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does? Amy Grant Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good. Robert Fortune Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear. Susie Bright Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. Stanislaw Lem I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away. Nancy Mitford A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system. Ed Markey

They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go

back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them. Denis Kearney To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. Thomas Carlyle Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating. Dizzy Dean Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie. David Hackworth I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again. Kevin Keegan I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds. Barry Zito In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? Virgil

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English

soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. Pope John Paul II You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying. Lynn Davies My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. Kevin Mitnick They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. Robert Smith Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. Gilbert Parker A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. James Keller

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself.

For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Martha Washington Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. Tryon Edwards As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. Friedrich Schiller You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. Robert Louis Stevenson A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days? Lauren Bacall Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day. Branch Rickey You know, I have no worst experiences. Bob Denver

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent

I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life. Norman Rockwell Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel. Kirk Cameron Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. Sydney Pollack The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. Benjamin Disraeli Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. Wayne Dyer When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. Henry Ward Beecher Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. Benjamin Disraeli

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in

the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers. Rick Boucher I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others. Steve Nash No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election. Matt Gonzalez Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you? Scott Reed It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. Cyril Connolly My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it. Adam Duritz

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management

team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it. Sanjay Kumar I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in. Joe Lieberman The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. Victor Hugo Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others. Jonathan Winters It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this. Michael Graves The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason,

and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. Samuel Beckett I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it. Mike Gordon Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. Charles de Lint A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. Ezra Pound The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better. Nancy Lopez Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. Fran Lebowitz The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting. Major Owens

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,

he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Aldous Huxley Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. Erwin Rommel I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. W. H. Auden I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock. Arthur Rock Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature. David Tudor Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. Charles Lamb The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain

that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint. Algernon H. Blackwood It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished. Norman Ralph Augustine Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. Robert Collier I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway. Nicholas Lea For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. Francis Bacon If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game. Rickey Henderson I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most. George H. W. Bush

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going.

And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad. Keith Emerson The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs. Roy Horn Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying. Hugh Hopper Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. Jean Rostand I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them. John Gay Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. Jim Rohn A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. Christopher Morley

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I

wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. Karen Armstrong The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. Milton Glaser Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. John McCarthy Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. Babe Ruth Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. William Godwin Every guilty person is his own hangman. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally. Catherine Keener

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature

of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. Richard Russo We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities. Thabo Mbeki If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be. Barney Oliver Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. Elias Canetti History provides no precise guidelines. Douglas Hurd The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself. John Mortimer Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music. Ruben Blades

I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've

just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way. Erin Gray Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. Italo Calvino John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing. John Legend Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anais Nin An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. Laurence J. Peter I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve. Bill Dickey My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today. Richard Adams

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because

they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more. Jerry Bruckheimer You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way. Nia Vardalos I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue? Randy Johnson I think that money has changed my sport. Bill Toomey If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. George Bernard Shaw Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. Andre Malraux You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. Marcus Aurelius

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership.

Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice. Philip Levine I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time. Kim Basinger Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness. Sean Paul I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man. Rip Torn I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. Clarence Darrow Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. Fannie Farmer How can you be organized when you're in Times Square? Mary-Kate Olsen

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...

Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. Cesar Chavez The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals. Harold Ford, Jr. I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. Gustave Courbet Will is the dynamic soul-force. Albert Pike There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. J. K. Rowling Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. Ronald Fisher The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable. William Hedgcock Webster

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate

from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. Andrew Shue In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. Vernor Vinge I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. Charles M. Schwab Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. William Feather My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist. Michael Bergin I could talk about Blade Runner forever. Brion James I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm

crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day. Chuck D Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. Albert Camus Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? Chester W. Nimitz Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? Jared Diamond It takes three to make a child. e. e. cummings To invent is to discern, to choose. Henri Poincare What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff. Ted Allen

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their

young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. Thomas de Quincey I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out. Red Adair Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy. Alfred A. Montapert Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us. Arthur C. Nielsen Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love. Wally Lamb But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves. Vint Cerf I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally. Barry Zito

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to

seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere. Paul Allen I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. Romeo LeBlanc I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss. Rutger Hauer I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before. Christopher Atkins Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got. Andrew Young Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. Andrea Dworkin

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always

failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. Denis Waitley For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it. Graeme Murphy Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do. Jonathan Coe I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. Walter Cronkite People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street. Andrea Corr To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their

turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. Romeo LeBlanc Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. Janet Napolitano You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school. David James Elliott Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent. Samuel Foote A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was

gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. Emo Philips People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite. Jennifer Lopez Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is! John Harvey Kellogg We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. Abraham Maslow We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management. Kevin Mitnick Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice. William Weld When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part. Charle

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately,

to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it. Andy Kaufman The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. Jose Ortega y Gasset I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel. Jonny Wilkinson Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. Rainer Maria Rilke They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal. Jessica Cutler I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. Cornelia Funke We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always

is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. Phillips Brooks The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. Pierre de Coubertin When you're out there with thousands of people it's probably better to have a bigger show to look at, and it turned out really well and they videoed it for me. Cliff Richard It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them. Hugh Mackay Thus far we run before the wind. Arthur Murphy Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Thomas Jefferson Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. George Bancroft

I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens

of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there. Howard Baker The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week. Greg Walden Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam If you can accept losing, you can't win. Vince Lombardi About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man. Richard Dawson Problems are the price you pay for progress. Branch Rickey Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says,

'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community. Richard M. Daley We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle. Maynard James Keenan We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' Levi Strauss I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. Rodney Dangerfield Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant. Jim Cole Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. David Halberstam Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress. Sandra Dee

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their

lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives. Albert Bandura But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough. John Abizaid I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way. Joe DiMaggio We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. Nick Faldo He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. Saadi It's a huge responsibility being a solo act. Robbie Williams Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. Diane Arbus

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and

Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology. Mohamed ElBaradei I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking. Sylvester Stallone I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people. Peter Jennings No, I don't want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public. Joaquin Phoenix Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open. Goran Persson So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! Bryan Procter I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it. Darrell Royal

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess

a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog. Alicia Silverstone We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country. Charles Bass Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. Ronald Reagan We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. Denis Waitley That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Anatole France There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. Thomas Huxley To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus

Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why

things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves. Patrick Leahy Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. Douglas Hurd There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway. Charles Horner Above our life we love a steadfast friend. Christopher Marlowe If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? Vincent Van Gogh Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. Jean-Marie Le Pen I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished. Richard Price

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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a

film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. Danny Boyle I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. Arielle Dombasle I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast. Tommy Hilfiger As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all. Gene Tierney I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. Sam Wyly You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way. Terry McMillan No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever. Thomas Malthus Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions. Vaclav Havel The best thing about be

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be

a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened. James McAvoy I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. Mitt Romney I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction. China Mieville I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent. Chloe Grace Moretz Listen to many, speak to a few. William Shakespeare I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks. Katee Sackhoff I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. Tori Spelling I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not. Tommy Shaw As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thi

I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into

politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it. John McEnroe That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller. Lew Wasserman I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well. Hale Irwin Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. Ezra Taft Benson As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want. Dennis Rodman It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coach

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect

for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day. Tom Hanks The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. Jose Eduardo dos Santos I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it. Brian Harvey In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to. John Walters It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. Immanuel Kant When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that t

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a

constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. Will Rogers Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. John W. Gardner Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. Louis Farrakhan The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. Robert Taft Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. Frederick Jackson Turner While a lab Director can ge

Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more

powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy. Nathan Myhrvold If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album. Lil Wayne If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. Tony Gilroy There are lots of moments that are great for an actress. Ruth Wilson I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well. Lindsey Graham Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty. Robert Mondavi You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. Gordon Lightfoot Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed togeth

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not

mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' Colin Powell 'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living. Jason Newsted To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China. Iris Chang It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. Norman Vincent Peale You will find my last words in the blue folder. M

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I

really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make. Christian Slater It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else. Lance Burton We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen. Barack Obama Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music. Nobuo Uematsu It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters. Maurice Greene I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk. Josh Homme It's insane to try to balance the budget. William Vickrey I didn't want to do something that was easy for me. Christina Aguilera I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway. George Stephenson The president may be a nice guy, but he&#

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When

it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours. James Mooney I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline. Lydia Lunch It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want. Margaret Haddix The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. Theodore Roosevelt Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential. Smokey Robinson We always have a good time playing, and I'm glad it shows. Kathy Valentine The question is no

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have

taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased. Len G. Murray We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech. Albert Finney My job description is... being enthusiastic. Dhani Harrison Black culture has been a huge influence in my life. Eddie Huang It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan. Jencarlos Canela Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. Tim Berners-Lee Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment. John Bercow I pack every minute I can with something to do. Bryan Adams I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. Jeanette Winterson I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. John Lithgow