up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen. Kevin J. Anderson And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. Edmund Waller The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program. Mitchell Reiss Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche. Joshua Leonard Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. Charles Kettering Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary. Al Capp Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? Diogenes

not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. George Orwell The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out. Jackie Cooper Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolo Machiavelli When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. Ben Kingsley We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. Clarence Day Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old. Wes Borland I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure. Sebastian Bach

frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers. Herb Alpert The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. Steve Martin Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. Mae West I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. Kristin Scott Thomas I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. Princess Margaret

a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. Richard P. Feynman There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed. Dan Simmons The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. Charles Simeon Innocence is always unsuspicious. Joseph Joubert Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. Rosa Parks I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am. Christian Bale I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke. Victoria Jackson

difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there. Ron Glass My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that? Andy Kaufman I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear? Naomi Campbell It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. Mark Hoppus Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. William Warburton Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. Bill Russell Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges. Ezra Cornell

constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. Saint Francis de Sales I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay. Mary Douglas But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times. John Abizaid A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. Alan Perlis If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. Niccolo Machiavelli We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? Nick Hornby

If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. Werner Herzog A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Ambrose Bierce A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. Denis Kearney Every good cause is worth some inefficiency. Paul Samuelson Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. Vin Scully Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. Jeffery Deaver Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. George Whitefield

of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks. John Yoo But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason. Charles Bass The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' George Grosz Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box. Dirk Benedict You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. Miyamoto Musashi There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. Francis Beaumont The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. Georg Cantor

majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. Henry David Thoreau Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. James Galway If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. Muhammad Iqbal So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature. Brent Scowcroft Music is the fourth great ...

own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. Pierre de Coubertin One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song. Manfred Mann When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need. Ellen Goodman After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. Aristotle Onassis A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. Robert Browning A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Paul Cezanne Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then. Dennis Brown

a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. James F. Cooper As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means. Robert B. Laughlin Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier. Curtis LeMay Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. Neil Armstrong Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result. Bobby Robson In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. Miguel de Icaza Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. Ann Coulter

I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. Bjorn Borg I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren. Tom Coburn What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. Mahatma Gandhi If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem. I. F. Stone Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. Ravi Shankar Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers. Wyclef Jean You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back. Jon English

very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned. Fred F. Fielding Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either. Carroll Quigley Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. Daniel J. Boorstin We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world. Samuel P. Huntington I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. Johannes Kepler This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. Morris Chestnut

lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. John Adams A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. Alexander Payne Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger. Fran Drescher I reject your reality and substitute my own. Adam Savage Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian? Richard Levin The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass. Sanjay Kumar I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible. Robert Benton Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language. John Edward If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. Orville Wright People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. Lewis H. Lapham I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood. Barbet Schroeder A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most prof...

you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? W. Clement Stone I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting. Thomas Edward Brown I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years. Vicente Fox What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Werner Heisenberg Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie I jokingly refer to the word 'gourmet' as the 'g' word. Arthur Schwartz There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan

be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers! John Hughes If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. Sydney Madwed Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. Adelaide Anne Procter I'm just thrilled to see people enjoying the music. Juice Newton People are what this election is all about. Patty Berg Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. Charles Churchill It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. Robert Anton Wilson

notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you. Linda Evans This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. Joseph Conrad I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism. Herbie Hancock If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost. Morton Feldman Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Anton Chekhov To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. Confucius

refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work. Nastassja Kinski I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor. Leonardo DiCaprio What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis. Mark McGwire Good and bad men are less than they seem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. Ezra Pound I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. E. B. White

it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create! Robert Collier The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens. Robert Fortune My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama. Richard E. Grant Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved. Mohammed Omar He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian. Woody Allen Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. William Allan Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone. Goran Persson

that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. John Pilger When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.' Mary Lou Williams The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. William Winwood Reade Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. Christian Nestell Bovee Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. Mark Twain It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. Salvador Dali

a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball. Jack Buck I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done. River Phoenix First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that. Julius Rosenberg I have been guilty of wrong thinking. Anne Hutchinson It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one. Allan Carr I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago. James Caan My worst habit is whistling while I sleep. Billy Boyd

the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. Arnold Bennett We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. Albert Camus As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. Cleveland Amory A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. Don Fraser Everything is pathology, except for indifference. Emile M. Cioran When we can't dream any longer we die. Emma Goldman We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. Blaise Pascal

on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. Soren Kierkegaard As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament. Mario Monti Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. Johann Kaspar Lavater You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. S. I. Hayakawa Honor your commitments with integrity. Les Brown I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had. George Kennedy Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. Sextus Propertius

of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. Jane Porter A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior. Will Wright Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. Margaret Mead Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. Giotto di Bondone Step by step and the thing is done. Charles Atlas Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion. Major Taylor It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. Kin Hubbard

are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured. Greg Walden When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy. Timothy McVeigh The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. Ellsworth Huntington You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him. Ruth Ellis There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. Anthony Rapp But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. John Trumbull

religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. John Strachan One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. Mortimer Adler With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track. Scott Reed The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. William Shakespeare Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know. Lindsay Wagner The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. Steven Pinker All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wo...

time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Helena Blavatsky The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood. George B. McClellan You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know. Barry Mann Elves are cool, man. Orlando Bloom As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived. Connie Mack Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. Diogenes Youth is a period of missed opportunities. Cyril Connolly

what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee. Valerie Harper I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. Asa Gray Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. Henry Flynt The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. Orison Swett Marden There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. Denis Diderot Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating. John Engler Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice. Mike DeWine

the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. Edward Bach I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap. Simon Cowell In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. Thomas Gold In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show. Marilyn Manson Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. Lowell Thomas Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer. John Lone

and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography. George Phillips Bond I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'? George Steinbrenner I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real. Jonathan Bennett There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females. Ezra Cornell Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will. Pythagoras I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills. Terri Windling Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us. Duane G. Carey

and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political. William Odom We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war. Arthur Henderson Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming. Alanis Morissette I think my favorite album was probably Realization. Johnny Rivers A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. Phyllis McGinley The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community. Adam Schiff

so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird. Richie Sambora Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do. Doug Harvey That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write. Natalie Goldberg I've waffled before. I'll waffle again. Howard Dean I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference. Marilyn Manson If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. Jean Paul

results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. Gary Ryan Blair The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. Samuel Smiles Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Virginia Woolf Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen. Nina Blackwood Peace in the head, peace in the stomach. Jean-Bertrand Aristide Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem. Shelley Berkley The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that. David Soul

pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. Avery Brundage We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. Charles Stanley Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. George Santayana If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything. Ilie Nastase Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. George Montgomery You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. Alex Morrison Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. Adlai E. Stevenson

Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well. John Salazar Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other. Emmy Rossum It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. Alfred Jarry Never order food in excess of your body weight. Erma Bombeck One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. Norman Ralph Augustine But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate. John Abizaid I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera. Leonardo DiCaprio

give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul. Charles Handy Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic. Michelle Rodriguez The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. Berenice Abbott Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Paul Whiteman Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. Peter Drucker The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband. Lady Bird Johnson The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. Thomas Huxley

little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks. Seth Low They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? Kanye West In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. Damien Hirst America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. Gloria Steinem In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project. Douglas Wilson The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life. John Chrysostom History is the story of events, with praise or blame. Cotton Mather

just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened. Wally Lamb I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. Howard Gardner Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face. Tim Conway Rekindled love is generally short-term. Nicholas Sparks The soul's joy lies in doing. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Missourians are working than ever before. Bob Holden I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors. Jonathan Frakes

of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. Daniel Pinkwater I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it. Dylan Moran The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. Lucinda Franks When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. Friedrich Nietzsche I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up. Barry Gibb If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right. Donald Rumsfeld Physiologically less violent and psychologically more...

intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. Patrick Geddes Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. Barbara Bush I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s. Bobby Womack Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no love which does not become help. Paul Tillich The man whose authority is recent is always stern. Aeschylus The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law. Philip E. Berger

the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out. Archibald Alexander Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations. Guy Verhofstadt I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. Benjamin Netanyahu When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts. Bo Bennett What do you despise? By this you are truly known. Michelangelo The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. Mortimer Adler I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her. Guy Ritchie

for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice. Barbara Boxer The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. Edward Hoagland I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly. Jeff Beck Women's music is underrepresented. Beth Anderson You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. Warren Buffett Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. John Perry Barlow To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. Bill Vaughan

than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang. Ronnie Hawkins Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. Mencius A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands. William Lyon Phelps I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead. Laura Kightlinger Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. Trent Lott At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy. Sidney Blumenthal My biggest problem is retaining the exact information. David Cross

to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. Ida Tarbell What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Margaret Mitchell I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. J. Edgar Hoover Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over. Amy Alcott I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff. Joseph Fiennes Censorship is advertising paid by the government. Federico Fellini But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists. Ernst Zundel

of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. Don Young Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering. Ethel Rosenberg There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. Evelyn Waugh Courage in danger is half the battle. Plautus Why go somewhere else and start up all over again? John Baldacci Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. Louis Kronenberger

to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity. Michael Oxley Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. David Ives The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. Michael Ondaatje I am a gay American. James McGreevey Each time I play a song it seems more real. Robert Smith I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else. Emmanuelle Beart Kindness is the cause of all anxiety. David D. Burns

idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do. Bryan Singer Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level. Bill Dixon The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. Napoleon Bonaparte To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. Ludwig von Mises The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment. Tom Barrett Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. Albert Einstein Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. Ge...

advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine. Will Wright Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also. Townsend Harris I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain. John Hall The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more. Brent Scowcroft Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. Bobby Unser I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away. Stuart Appleby When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. Helen Rowland

9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? Rahm Emanuel There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day. Mackenzie Astin Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries. Richard V. Allen I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. Nicholas Sparks The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job. Samuel Goldwyn Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa

and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience. Ed Markey That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better. Leo Kottke Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. James Russell Lowell It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane. Sean Combs It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Stendhal My use of language is part and parcel of my message. Theo Van Gogh Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. Philip Roth

items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons. Mitchell Reiss After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it. Carl Perkins I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here. Michael Owen Bruce This is a strange game. Carl Yastrzemski Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Van Morrison Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. Morrissey It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens. Anthony Weiner

given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play. Joan Sutherland Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia. Julie Bishop We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive. Corrine Brown If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? Laurence J. Peter The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. Robert Bly My greatest fear is to be misunderstood. Elliott Gould I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. Andy Goldsworthy