opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. Hussein of Jordan Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. David Seabury I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids. Carrie Underwood Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way. Matthew Prior We need a hit, so here I go. Joe DiMaggio We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors. Pauline Hanson It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. Corazon Aquino

to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. David Amram I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. Shakira In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. Nong Duc Manh The desire to write grows with writing. Desiderius Erasmus Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Friedrich Schiller Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. Charles V Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. William Hazlitt

got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said. Mike Gordon More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. Leonard Bailey All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. Francis Thompson To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy. Lamar S. Smith Excessive literary production is a social offense. George Eliot I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. Clive Bell

of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity. Christopher Dawson I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. Arthur Rubinstein A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. Bill Walsh Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. Richard J. Needham You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. Max Lerner You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. Jean...

by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. Mao Zedong Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. Jared Diamond I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. George Eliot If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you. Robert Anthony Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. Howard Dean I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes. Jill Dando Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision. J...

for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. J. Michael Straczynski America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. David Brooks Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film. Yahoo Serious Writing is a solitary occupation. Bernard Cornwell But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war. Christopher Shays Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Boy George I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front. Edward Bennett Williams

day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out! Eric Carle When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body. Rachel Blanchard Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. Steve Prefontaine Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. Stephen Leacock I never liked making albums. Jim Sullivan Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. Jared Diamond

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. Eliot Ness You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. Jimi Hendrix I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience. Slick Rick Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. Brooks Robinson The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged. Major Owens Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Earl Warren

retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success. Napoleon Hill Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. Marcus Aurelius It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty. Dick Thornburgh A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. George Burns With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. Paul Eldridge A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy. Vivica A. Fox

will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Don Miguel Ruiz If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better. Jonathan Frakes Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. William Hazlitt There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. Penelope Lively I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now. Lesley Garrett Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true. Nigella Lawson When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis. Anna Kournikova

it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know? John Robinson I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that. Campbell Scott Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. Barbara Kruger Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen. Paul Samuelson I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. Carl Rakosi You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community. Alan Autry There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them. Larry Hagman

was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. Iris Chang Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. Evan Esar Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House. John F. Kennedy The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Jim Rohn The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. Mary Catherine Bateson An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. Francis Thompson

is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. John Henrik Clarke Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. Horace This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. Arthur C. Clarke But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with. Cynthia Weil Too much truth is uncouth. Franklin Pierce Adams An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. Thomas Fuller I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. Eddie Izzard

issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. Michael Badnarik People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. Kurt Vonnegut I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. Dean Koontz When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves. Eleonora Duse I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation. Billy Sherwood The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. William Gilbert One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. Robert Fortune

sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous. Andy Richter I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief. Nick Cave I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. Roy Orbison My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life. Terri Windling Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong. Terence We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by. John Denver The monster was the best friend I ever had. Boris Karloff

weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them. Curtis LeMay All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. Samuel Beckett I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them. Clement Attlee I am a part of all that I have met. Alfred Lord Tennyson Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Helen Keller It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. John Greenleaf Whittier

is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. Jane Jacobs If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. Octavio Paz Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.' Rip Torn A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. Dorothy L. Sayers We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value. Thomas Vilsack America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. Charlotte Bunch It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped. William Tecumseh Sherman

legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them. Mark Shields The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region. Hussein of Jordan If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake. Graeme Murphy The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it. Pam Grier It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers. Walt Alston Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul

grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life. David Eddings I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard. Dwayne Hickman I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. Angelina Grimke The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity. Ellsworth Huntington Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Nathaniel Hawthorne The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists. Sam Ewing Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together. Jeremy London

the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things. Gwyneth Paltrow I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture. Patricia Ireland I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. Jean Racine I have more influence now than when I had the power. Gough Whitlam A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. Alphonse de Lamartine Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. Arthur Bremer

interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was. Marcel Dionne I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it. Joan Allen Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature. George Crumb The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. Peter Drucker A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. Patrick Kavanagh What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. Thomas A. Edison Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. Susie Bright

and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie. Ennio Morricone I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children. George Shearing There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies. John Sterling Human beings crave freedom at their core. John Ensign When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on. Tim Conway You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones. Bob Riley More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. Rainer Maria Rilke

good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year. Roy Clark When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. Kazuo Ishiguro Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. Plato I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace. Eddie Bernice Johnson I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot. James Spader Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does. Murray Walker The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless. Cheech Marin

creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration. Yahoo Serious You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die. Joaquin Andujar The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits. Mike Huckabee The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. H. Allen Smith A happy family is but an earlier heaven. George Bernard Shaw The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. Ron Suskind Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game. Troy Vincent

that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. Philip Roth For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom. Muqtada al Sadr We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments. Alexis Herman When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you. Morris Chestnut I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that. Liam Gallagher Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it. Gary Sinise You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside. Alan Cohen

every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. Edmond About Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out. Luigi Pirandello Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically. Deborah Bull I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace. Christopher Atkins There's nothing you can know that isn't known. John Lennon And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town. Frank Darabont I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. Marilyn Monroe

ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. D. H. Lawrence The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death. Daniel Petrie Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life. Joan D. Vinge I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. John Lilly I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score. Dan Gable He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much. Penelope Cruz Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to. Tucker Carlson That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within. Prem Rawat Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. Tertullian The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure. Sue Kelly All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. Vaclav Havel

far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance. Albert Claude As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Clayton Christensen I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. Wilkie Collins Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Paul Tournier The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there. Thomas Haden Church It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes. David Cassidy

beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. Marcus Aurelius It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world. John Nelson Darby I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists. Jimmy Carl Black Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. Confucius You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. An Wang Interviewing people is pretty natural for me. Nina Blackwood In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld. Charles Keating

culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state. Jeb Bush When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? Patricia Ireland No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty. Jon Corzine I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. Howard Dean Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. Britney Spears My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, yo...

touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it. Leo Kottke I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. D. H. Lawrence Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard. Randy West People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. Ovid Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. Ellen Barkin Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. Steven Wright

because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past. Tom Atkins Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort. Charles J. Givens What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference. James Caan The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. Chauncey Depew What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. Woody Allen Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth. Ed Rendell Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. Joan Rivers

dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager. Robbie Coltrane A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. Jawaharlal Nehru Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different? Aleksander Kwasniewski I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation. Satchel Paige We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. George Bernard Shaw I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. Walter Cronkite There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas. Paul Kagame

only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. Nhat Hanh I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long. Brian Austin Green Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. Bryant H. McGill Things are beautiful if you love them. Jean Anouilh If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. Les Brown Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. Thomas Nagel Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Jonathan Swift

stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet. Mathieu Kerekou But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. Charles Ives To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. Tryon Edwards For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home. David Letterman Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. U Thant There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. Jean Baudrillard Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. Arthur C. Nielsen

to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. Charles Horton Cooley Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' Max Planck People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world. Howard Dean Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. Jack Henry Abbott Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg. Sly Stone You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not. Alain Prost See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke

sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up. Teresa Heinz In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute. Rick Mercer You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it. Sammy Sosa A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some. Joe Moore Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away. Ricky Gervais There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. Lyndon B. Johnson If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. Dolly Parton

the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. John Perkins Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death. Robert Vaughn I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. Andrew Taylor Still Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools. Lord Salisbury Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. George Savile You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you? Bud Abbott I love the hip-hop nation. Pam Grier

government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK. Allan Sloan God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. D. H. Lawrence O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. Walt Whitman Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. Owen Feltham We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. Nikki Giovanni I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. Clarence Darrow Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. Alexander Graham Bell

survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. Deborah Tannen I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it. Keith Emerson The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning. Roy Haynes The best path through life is the highway. Henri Frederic Amiel Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. Phaedrus The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. John Tillotson The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. Ludwig von Mises

way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving. Crystal Waters When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with. Michael Davis I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures. Drew Barrymore You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. James J. Corbett We're all working together; that's the secret. Sam Walton I didn't have anything to apologize for. Bernard Ebbers I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way. John Lone

know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A. Tom Hayden The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given. Richard G. Scott I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress. Dan Brown Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you. Abu Bakr Education is the investment our generation makes in the future. Mitt Romney The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. Sid Caesar If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen. Bill Owens

That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it. Eric Carr What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem. Donald Sutherland Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place. Ben Crenshaw A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Alexander Pope Teach us to give and not to count the cost. Saint Ignatius To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. Grace Metalious

to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it. Laura Kightlinger Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession. Joan Allen I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck. Joshua Leonard I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches. Tom Sizemore Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. Thomas Aquinas I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. Gertrude Stein I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time. Amanda Bynes

were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching. Damon Hill I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources. Barbara Mikulski The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epictetus There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. Charles Kettering You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball. Drew Bledsoe Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts You make a mistake, you keep going. Linda Gray

sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself. Stephanie Zimbalist By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all. Woodrow Wilson To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. Robert A. Heinlein Each one prays to God according to his own light. Mahatma Gandhi Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women? Robbie Coltrane The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. Edward Gibbon The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one. Franklin P. Jones

no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image. John Dykstra In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. Pliny the Elder A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones. Cher What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. Philip Glass I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. Christiane Amanpour It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. Ovid To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Norbert Wiener

a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. William James I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it. David Caruso Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. Peter Coyote Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been. Dick Smothers Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me. Johann Gottlieb Fichte It's those damn critics again. Irwin Shaw Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. Louis Nizer

problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. Patty Murray Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. Charles Evans Hughes There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part. Matthew Simpson Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Wendell Phillips I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history. John Lone If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. Miguel de Unamuno What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar. Thomas R. Marshall

be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve. Lindsey Graham It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll. Harry Caray I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?' Jim Caviezel Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. Douglas Horton Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. Fridtjof Nansen Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. Thomas Fuller The present condition of fame is merely fashion. Gilbert K. Chesterton

that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. Havelock Ellis The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems. Robert D. Kaplan A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. Daniel Akaka I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. Tom Wesselmann Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. Herb Alpert From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true. Vince McMahon The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. Robert Baden-Powell

present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. John Desmond Bernal Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Aldous Huxley Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Friedrich Schiller With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power. Billy Mitchell When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Tears are the summer showers to the soul. Alfred Austin

give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. Louis-Ferdinand Celine I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though. Jimmy Carl Black What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing. Alejandro Amenabar There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. Steven Curtis Chapman A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. Henry Fielding Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbear...

which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city. George Woodcock A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. Kurt Lewin Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music. Sonny Rollins We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes. Samuel Daniel Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. Susan Sontag It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm. Eddie Mathews Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done. Alain Robert

You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. Antonin Scalia There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. Auguste Rodin I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. Buddy Ebsen You've got to know business before you go to show business. Patti LaBelle It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. Amelia Barr The love of our private friends is...

there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish. Olivia De Havilland For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. Frank Shorter Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. Simone Weil To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. Demosthenes I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. Gustave Courbet To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. Olivia Newton-John

takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. Duane Michals Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. Pam Grier Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. Howard Zinn Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. Edwin Land It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. Vernor Vinge Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. Rupert Brooke There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. Andre Gide

empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. Ben Affleck As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt. Arlen Specter Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook. Charlie Trotter I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge. Mitchell Baker If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. Baruch Spinoza The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. Dwight D. Eisenhower I have no prejudice against male or female. John Lone

and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented. John Bates Clark When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour. Piers Anthony My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. Karl Kraus Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys. Emma Bull Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. Evita Peron If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. William Feather I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. Marilyn Hacker

North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982. Mark E. Smith Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful? Ed Wood The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. Salvador Dali The best things in life are usually difficult. Dirk Benedict I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now. Marc Maron I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle. Stephan Jenkins A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. Lucius Accius

remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right. Jimmie Walker If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job. Susan George Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. Jonathan Swift You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement. Ken Norton I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English. Paz Vega Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. Mark Twain

away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. Daniel De Leon For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why. Peter Mandelson I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window. Eddie Campbell The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. Alice Meynell What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? Christopher Marlowe We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option. Peter MacKay You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys. Gloria Grahame

It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks. Scarlett Johansson You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from. Zac Hanson To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. Ernest Hemingway My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year. Ted Shackelford What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed. Whitey Herzog Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits. Casey Stengel There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche

live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. Robert Wyatt If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. William Gilbert You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. William Temple All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness. Steve Martin So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all. Vince McMahon In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market. Ruben Blades

They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. J. D. Salinger One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. Robert A. Heinlein I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be. Cecil Taylor Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Blaise Pascal I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. Norman Cook He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Men stop trying after a while and get lazy. Leah Remini

through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. Cat Stevens I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person. Tim Roth I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. Frederik Pohl Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. Paula Poundstone We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. Hubert H. Humphrey My heart is like a singing bird. Christina Rossetti Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. John Denham

farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. Etty Hillesum I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. Michelangelo Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. Omar N. Bradley Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. Mark Twain What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. Isaac Bashevis Singer Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. Ernest Gaines The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. Stanley Smith Stevens

the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. Barbara Mikulski I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense. Jim Bolger We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation. John Thune I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like. Izabella Scorupco It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money. Lisa Nicole Carson I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. Robert Englund If you done it, it ain't bragging. Unknown

direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. Tony Robbins There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. Virginia Woolf I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else! Daniel Day-Lewis Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. Imelda Marcos Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. Augusto Pinochet Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. Virgil

Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. J. G. Ballard See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot. John Fahey When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help. Paul Allen We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. Lady Randolph Churchill All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. Thomas Aquinas This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more. William Stephenson She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine. Fritz Weaver

all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works. Ken Blanchard After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. Frederick Sanger All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. August Wilson We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans. John Howard He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president. Alan K. Simpson Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. Eric Hoffer We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honore de Balzac

who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint. Rebecca Romijn The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day. James Callaghan The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. Walter Wriston Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing. Persius An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. Simone Weil Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. Keith Miller Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. Edmund Waller

example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product. Jim Sensenbrenner The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage. Terence Fisher Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic. Sofia Coppola Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures. Eden Ahbez Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. Peter Ustinov Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. Eubie Blake Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians. Lita Ford

and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. Havelock Ellis My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them. Frank Press And when we go from braking to accelerating to cornering, the G-forces we pull are really demanding on our bodies. We definitely have to be in top shape. Michael Andretti I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that. John Entwistle Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism. Walter Lang The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. William Booth For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic. Adam Duritz

children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do. Robbie Coltrane I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that. Britney Spears Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price. Hillary Clinton And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. Erasmus Darwin My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it. Olusegun Obasanjo Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable. Matthew Henry I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide. Young Buck

the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort. Said Musa Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy. Bill Shuster A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. Jessamyn West The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed. Jeffrey Sachs There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. Albert Camus It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. Richard Linklater The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. Tom Peters

I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. John Gilmore Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. John Ruskin It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. Jean-Jacques Rousseau We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. Walt Disney In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job. Lisa Murkowski If you play more than two chords, you're showing off. Woody Guthrie

heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while. Clara Hughes A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission. Virginia Foxx When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again. Esther Williams There's no map to human behaviour. Bjork Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. Bret Harte Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. Marian Wright Edelman Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. Francis Picabia

able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time. Charles Stanley I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside. Shelley Long As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election. Eddie Bernice Johnson I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail. Wendell Wilkie Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. Daniel Defoe Investors don't like uncertainty. Kenneth Lay I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very luc...

alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country. Peter MacKay I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director. Joan Severance I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other. Ben Kingsley The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. Doug Larson I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good. James Woods Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year. John C. Hawkes That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I...

the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses. John Warner One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Baruch Spinoza I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try. Chill Wills How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy. Terence The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. Abraham Lincoln Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on. Arthur Baer

it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. Mark Warner The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance. Genie Francis A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't. Suzanne Fields It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir. Connie Willis I hate myself because I am not beautiful. Judith Moore

food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. Tom Brady A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. Charles de Lint There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. Simone Weil To me, bigger is better. Cindy Margolis I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle. Peter Mayhew Don't fight forces, use them. R. Buckminster Fuller Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian. Penelope Cruz

various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. Johann Arndt When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. Antonin Artaud The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. James A. Baldwin It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern. Stephen Harper I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm. Jay London We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. William Gaddis It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ...

minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. George William Russell They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone. Ike Turner There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can. Raul Julia There is a noble and a base side to every history. Thomas Wentworth Higginson I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to. Scott Caan There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over. Navjot Singh Sidhu Evil requires the sanction of the victim. Ayn Rand

the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. Ruth St. Denis Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. James A. Baldwin Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal. Will Ferrell I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people. Darrell Hammond Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. Norman Mailer I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really. Treat Williams I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous. Rupert Grint

while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer. Deborah Bull It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him. Kate Beckinsale There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them. Bill Klem After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy. George Clooney People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. Sydney J. Harris Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Maria Mitchell I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very prou...

hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false. John Harvey Kellogg The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips. Herb Alpert Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. Edward Moore I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin. Oscar Levant Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. Herbie Hancock My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. Mary Garden It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. H. G. Wells

don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead. David Bailey The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start. Sterling Marlin Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. John Adams This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time. Yasmine Bleeth The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. Dean Stanley To tell the truth is revolutionary. Antonio Gramsci One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages. Guru Nanak

the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best. Takeru Kobayashi I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in! Marisa Tomei For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations. Slobodan Milosevic Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. Lucille Ball It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid. Ahmed Best There should be no such thing as boring mathematics. Edsger Dijkstra Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. Fletcher Knebel

as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission. Mark Kirk I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation. Trip Hawkins Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that? Barbet Schroeder Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. Thomas Jefferson Freedom is the right to live as we wish. Epictetus Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds. Carolus Linnaeus An artist's sphere of influence is the world. Carl Maria von Weber

doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy? Will Smith I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on. John Travolta I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. Marc Maron Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking. Casey Stengel If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. Luc de Clapiers Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. Max Lerner Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. H. L. Mencken

anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people. Amanda Burton When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. Abraham Lincoln When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. Lillian Smith Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. W. Clement Stone We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. Rush Limbaugh Words are loaded pistols. Jean-Paul Sartre What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. Julius Caesar

but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe. Peter Farrelly Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. Neal Barnard I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. William Butler Yeats Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. Blaise Pascal The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you. Natalie Portman The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides. Bill Delahunt The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. Henry Adams

that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been. Al Lewis Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation. John Buford Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it? Joe Cocker People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. Pearl Bailey Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it. Heinz R. Pagels Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. Gabriel Marcel

it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years. Peter Singer There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. Bo Bennett If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. Noam Chomsky I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist. John Glover You're a song written by the hands of God. Shakira Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. Sonny Rollins

need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. Marquis de Sade I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet. Michael Scheuer Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. William Godwin Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust. Charles Colson Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. Lord Byron It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. Anna Kournikova Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. Harry Emerson Fosdick

and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. Joe Williams Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people. Amy Grant The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. Harper Lee I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen. Frankie Avalon There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion. Bill Pullman Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Daniel Bell I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out. Pat Cash

Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from. Susan Estrich I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.' Count Basie I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. D. H. Lawrence Those that won't be counseled can't be helped. Benjamin Franklin One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. Donald Trump Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. Emile M. Cioran The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that. Arnold Schwarzenegger