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Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger

program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. Albion W. Small Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry. Sally Kirkland There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. Michelangelo Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. George Bernard Shaw I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. William Hazlitt Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Napoleon Hill Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here. Graeme Murphy

I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to

do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies. Virginia Madsen The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. Edward Fitzgerald For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. Owen Arthur Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. Ouida Truth comes out in wine. Pliny the Elder Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk. Art Spiegelman It is right to give every man his due. Plato

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can

all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. Hillary Clinton Read much, but not many books. Gustave Flaubert This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come. Harry S Truman The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about. Marguerite Young Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. Anthony Trollope A meal can be an erotic experience in itself. Alex Comfort

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught

how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. Anita Desai My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Peter De Vries One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence. Mark Poster Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. Shirley Hufstedler Authority forgets a dying king. Alfred Lord Tennyson

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in

every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. Andy Rooney Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. Thomas Hardy I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible. Nastassja Kinski You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. Ludwig Wittgenstein Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Benjamin Franklin

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court

decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation. David Horowitz I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. James Cash Penney If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell. Jimmy Swaggart The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it. Daniel Keys Moran Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will. Rebecca Romijn My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Quentin Crisp

Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up

and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places. Alessandro Del Piero To be honest everything goes over my head a bit. Lee Ryan We're very needy people, you know. Alex Van Halen There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe. Michael Palin Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance. Benny Hinn Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell. Paula Danziger We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it. David Ruffin

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to

meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way. Dido Armstrong It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. Joseph Brodsky The government is us; we are the government, you and I. Theodore Roosevelt My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely. Cleopatra If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. Francis Bacon Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. Alexander Pope By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. Bill Vaughan

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to

be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work. Mikhail Khodorkovsky He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. Abraham Lincoln The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. Franklin P. Jones All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Edward Gibbon Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong. Richard King Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. Confucius I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me. Christopher Atkins

When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny

and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him. Craig Ferguson I think the harder you work, the more luck you have. Dave Thomas The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. Czeslaw Milosz Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. Erma Bombeck War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Ludwig von Mises Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm

saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that. Barbara Feldon If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. Richard Russo The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God. Eric Butterworth Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory. Allen Weinstein I haven't done an international film for a long time. Sadie Frost The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. Robert W. Welch, Jr. No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. Samuel Butler

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to

find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. Pope Benedict XVI Power in America today is control of the means of communication. Theodore White Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. Arthur Henderson For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving. Joe Cocker What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet. Susan George Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. Zhu Rongji This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying. William Kunstler

My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting.

I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre. Andy Garcia Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. Paul D. Boyer Without alienation, there can be no politics. Arthur Miller The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. Miguel de Unamuno Don't peak in high school. Lizzy Caplan Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls. Georg Trakl If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. Alphonse Karr

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab

initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. Yuan T. Lee Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. Rudolph A. Marcus For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain. Saul Kripke It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Henrik Ibsen A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Christian Nestell Bovee Talk radio doesn't need to be political. Jim Sullivan I never speak ill of dead people or live judges. Edwin Edwards

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From

here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card! Andrew Card The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. Henry Miller It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo. Tre Cool Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. Paul Harris If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses. Steven Wright What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. Miguel de Unamuno If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. Brendan Behan

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct

a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Saint Augustine True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. Florence King Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development. John Engler We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. Henry Van Dyke Self-respect knows no considerations. Mahatma Gandhi The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. Henry Miller

Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our

aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders. Hussein of Jordan Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it. Alex Van Halen It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. Georges Bernanos You can't run a business or anything else on a theory. Harold S. Geneen The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Eric Hoffer I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born. Fiona Shaw

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family

together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into! Agnetha Faltskog By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months. Betty Hill The most learned are often the most narrow minded. William Hazlitt Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change. Barbara Mikulski If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press. Mo Rocca He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. Elias Canetti You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance. Lars von Trier

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home

to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside. John James Audubon She would give them order. She would create constellations. Thomas Pynchon I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk. Claude Williams To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. Friedrich Schiller As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. John Keble I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! William Blake Came but for friendship, and took away love. Thomas Moore

I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get

some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia. Patrick McHenry Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture. John Walters I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. Alfred Lord Tennyson The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer. Fridtjof Nansen If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. Elbert Hubbard The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or

by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. John Bolton If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news. Jon Stewart To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. Charles J. Givens God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. Billy Graham I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter. Joe Cocker A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. William C. Bryant Integrity reveals beauty. Thomas Leonard

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly

virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream. Patricia Ireland For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. Guillermo del Toro I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there. Jon Favreau Strivers achieve what dreamers believe. Usher I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward. Fridtjof Nansen Life is the childhood of our immortality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay. Donna Mills

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and

the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. Bernard de Mandeville Faultless to a fault. Robert Browning There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. James Earl Jones Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. Dean Koontz I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them. Emo Philips Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular. Lord North Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on. Trevor Dunn

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent

for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim. Stephen Root Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there. Tommy Tune People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. Marcus Tullius Cicero Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. William Congreve We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians. Graeme Murphy I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. Linda Evangelista The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. Kenneth Rexroth

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people

and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. Charles Caleb Colton There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite. John C. Reilly I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target. Kenneth Williams The return makes one love the farewell. Alfred de Musset Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. Johnny Carson Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. Herbie Hancock Information is the resolution of uncertainty. Claude Shannon

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving

on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury. Florence Ellinwood Allen Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions. Jimmy Carl Black Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. Muammar al-Gaddafi Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. Sebastian Bach Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me. Sun Ra And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate. Graeme Murphy Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Aldous Huxley

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add

a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. Robert Herrick Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. Newt Gingrich Thou hast seen nothing yet. Miguel de Cervantes Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy I had to do something for the country. Hanoi Hannah I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself. Rebecca Loos I dress for women and I undress for men. Angie Dickinson

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one.

The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best! Dana Hill But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. Gerald Finzi Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. Alexander Pope The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. Djuna Barnes I want to be famous everywhere. Luciano Pavarotti A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's

good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool. Janet Jackson Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. William Congreve A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. Samuel Butler It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. Lyndon B. Johnson

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but

not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. Jim Rohn Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are. William Reddington Hewlett You have to know how to score. Brett Hull Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me. Jamal Lewis Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. Napoleon Bonaparte Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. Guillermo del Toro

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at

work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something. Dave Davies They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. Thomas Bailey Aldrich The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do. Bo Bennett In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create. Peter Mayhew What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it. Wayne Wonder I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine. Mike Piazza

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave

it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department. Bill Scott Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat. Tara Strong The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. Mark Twain Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. Tacitus President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger. David Letterman My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor. Victoria Pratt

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours

(mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. William Henry Ashley Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. Barry Humphries Our ideals are our better selves. Amos Bronson Alcott The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. Oscar Wilde By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. Edmund Burke Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several

days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism. Pete Stark My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. Ken Livingstone That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up. Zach Braff We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. Richard Perle If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. Doug Larson The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder. Richard J. Daley Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. Duke of Wellington

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills

the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Joseph Addison Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. Robert Byrne The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive. Robert Frost No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. Sydney Smith If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains. Diana Ross Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. Joseph Addison It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long. Elizabeth Moon

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them

to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. Walt Disney If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. Hillary Clinton I see only adaptations - not revolutions. Gordon Getty It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation. Kathleen Winsor Art will never be able to exist without nature. Pierre Bonnard We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam. Scott Weiland

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a

performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on. Richard McCabe The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion. Algernon Sidney To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift. Aeschylus Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. Martin Luther A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself. Joel A. Barker When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white. Sam Mendes A painting that is well composed is half finished. Pierre Bonnard

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time,

which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. Edward Levi The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries. Silvia Cartwright You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it. Susie Bright It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow. Gary Neville You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Nigella Lawson The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. Lee Strasberg We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. R. Buckminster Fuller

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President

Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny. John Ensign A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn It was all I lived for, to play baseball. Mickey Mantle Things always look better when you haven't seen them. Craig Bruce There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde It's very clean. With tape, you get noise. Herb Alpert It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. Alain de Botton

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be

guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. Paul Martin Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. Richard Linklater As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself. Troy Vincent Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up. Samuel Smiles The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry. James Joseph Sylvester My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. Rick Moody You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision. Julie Nixon Eisenhower

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride

in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. Jon Stewart I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie. Nina Blackwood Each new book is a tremendous challenge. Peter Straub I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC. David Selby I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way. Jon Crosby I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. Nicholas Sparks But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy. Pierre Laval

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to

float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. David Cronenberg To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. John H. Johnson It does not pay a prophet to be too specific. L. Sprague de Camp The way that I live my life is on spontaneity. Melanie Brown Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Bernard Baruch The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. Will Rogers Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him. Frank A. Clark

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served

in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality. Allen Boyd Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart. Jason Marsden Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. Friedrich Schiller Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. Alvin Toffler Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. Mark Twain The fool wanders, a wise man travels. Thomas Fuller Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look. Kelly Lynch

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an

infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. Hannes Alfven Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year. Dick Thornburgh All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. Gordie Howe The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. John Templeton Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther. J. P. Morgan When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. Will Rogers Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and

done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living. Jim Dine If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right? Trip Hawkins Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant. Randy Jackson Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. Ludwig Wittgenstein From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. Samuel Goldwyn The first thing the secretary types is the boss. Donald Trump Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now

than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America. Robert Stone The moment you're born you're done for. Arnold Bennett I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. Richard Lewis Silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. Tony Scott If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn. Charlie Parker To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! Elizabeth Gaskell

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare

of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. William Robertson Smith I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist. Steven Squyres Garden as though you will live forever. William Kent The world changed on September 11, 2001. Christopher Dodd Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. Barbara De Angelis I look like a quarry someone has dynamited. Charles Bronson My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on

weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are. Troy Perry Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. Wilkie Collins I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. Thomas Jefferson I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you. Tom Sizemore Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off. Steve Prefontaine What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. Ruben Blades There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. Lily Tomlin

We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice.

But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day. Jack Charlton To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery. Algernon Sidney A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. Alexander Hamilton Many hands make light work. John Heywood There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. Marie Antoinette Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick. Alicia Silverstone

It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their

financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy. Daniel Akaka A pitcher is not a ballplayer. Christy Mathewson Fake is as old as the Eden tree. Orson Welles It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed. Carrie Underwood Never find fault with the absent. Alexander Pope The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it. F. L. Lucas Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. Fred F. Fielding

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts

were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. Roland Allen I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation. Bob Costas The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. Theodor Adorno It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. Henri Poincare Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. Voltaire A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. Jose Ortega y Gasset Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain. Whitey Ford

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel

all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach We have lost the art of sharing and caring. Hun Sen Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. Annie Gottlieb Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. Diana Cooper She's generous to a fault - if it's her own. Arthur Baer Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game. Serena Williams I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands. Cher

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't

work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems. Jack Kevorkian You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation. Kenneth Lay I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine. Bill Condon It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. Elizabeth Bowen I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have. Alice Barrett I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school. Edward Furlong Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. Ronald Reagan

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would

listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work. Meredith Monk If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand. Brad Carson I was rapping at eight. Nick Cannon If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. Stanley Kubrick My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. Jean-Marie Le Pen Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid. Dante Hall Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance. Yao Ming

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without

understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. Raoul Vaneigem I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going. Julia Stiles How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die. Thomas Cole The biggest labor problem is tomorrow. Brigham Young A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Ralph Waldo Emerson I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now. Anson Williams You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. Dick Armey

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than

they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect. Elisabeth Shue The point of power is always in the present moment. Louise L. Hay Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. Novalis Inexpensive is good. Douglas Wilson Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. Philip Wylie I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. Joseph Addison We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. B. B. King

I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops

and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show. Aaron Spelling A great fortune is a great slavery. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. Matthew Henry Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin It seems that laughter needs an echo. Henri Bergson Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Pablo Picasso Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt. Dee Dee Myers

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a

difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life? Jane Elliott Being unprepared heightens nerves. James Galway I never use notes, they interfere with me. Ken Blanchard Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations. Matthew Hayden Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. Bernard Baruch Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences. Walt Alston

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment

and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides. Judith Anderson I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things. Jaime Hernandez The house of laughter makes a house of woe. Edward Young We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium. Fritz Scholder The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. Andrew Johnson Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. Gilbert K. Chesterton If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career. Larisa Oleynik

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep

philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. Robert Musil An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. Paul Samuelson There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part. Cynthia Weil After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans. Phyllis Schlafly He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. Erica Jong There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! David R. Brower I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. Ed Case

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of

the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me. Tom Courtenay The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. Helen Hunt Jackson Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public. Michael Schudson Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime! Raymond Smullyan Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible. Imran Khan People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me! Wendy Liebman

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot

about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do. Louise Fletcher When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them. Peter Wright Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. Howard Lindsay I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. Emo Philips Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here. Eva Braun To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. Andre Maurois A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy. Stephan Jenkins

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You

invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China. Terry McAuliffe A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. Don Herold It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. Orson Scott Card First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos. Nina Blackwood Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. Frank McCourt Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius

At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but

in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing. David Soul I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society. John Cameron Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. William Tecumseh Sherman Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. Gregory Bateson You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down. David Niven Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. Russell Baker

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed

and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it. Matthew Barney They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game. Keith Hernandez We pass through this world but once. Stephen Jay Gould I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me. Arlo Guthrie The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion. George Gillespie In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side. Luther Allison A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. James MacGregor Burns

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind

where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye. Raymond E. Feist Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements. Bryant H. McGill The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. Solomon Ibn Gabirol It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political. Judith Light It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. Eric Hoffer The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern. Mitchell Reiss

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great

charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command. William Falconer Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else. Michael Madsen Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. Richard M. Nixon The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius. Craig Bruce I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance. Pam Grier I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off. Christina Ricci A Christian is the highest style of man. Edward Young

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would

place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. Charles Vest I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that. Anita Hill It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. Marianne Moore When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. George MacDonald If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. Tom Stoppard I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family. Joely Fisher Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut.

I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. John L. Phillips If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu I like rain, actually. Bill Rodgers I've got them in the can and I am looking for a label. Michael Owen Bruce It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. Grover Cleveland But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one. Lita Ford The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint. Reggie Jackson

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty.

In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. Christopher Wren I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons. Al Michaels Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men. Stephen Lewis Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves. Lewis Tappan Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. Henry Adams Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying

of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. Johann Arndt What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Marcus Terentius Varro I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. Berenice Abbott Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. Muhammad Iqbal I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time. Gerry Cooney We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. John Henry Newman My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. Anita Desai

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed

forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God. Saint Patrick If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Thomas Carlyle I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best. David Cross Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do. Steve Burton A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people. Brad Henry Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington. Sebastian Bach

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of

care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. Napoleon Hill Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. Jean Giraudoux This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life. Julia Barr Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. Citium Zeno Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. Friedrich Nietzsche When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?' Robin Williams I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'. Howard Barker

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead

to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now. John Desmond Bernal Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British. Naveen Andrews A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. Quintilian There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. George Washington Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. Alanis Morissette If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little. James Stewart

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money

if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money. Michael Enzi Theology is anthropology. Anselm Feuerbach I'm not ambitious. Amy Sedaris I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver. Nicholas Lea When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice. Julie Benz Great hopes make great men. Thomas Fuller Balance is overrated. Thomas Leonard

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves,

as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. Simone Weil I don't put labels on myself. John Engler We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. Bernard Williams Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. Daniel Barenboim If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. Matthew Perry The art of pleasing is the art of deception. Luc de Clapiers Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! Thomas Babington Macaulay

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and

then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. Jeffery Deaver The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. Orlando Gibbons The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. Jeff Greenfield Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. Christopher Lasch It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been. Zac Hanson Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal. Nancy Cartwright

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that

I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. Seamus Heaney Things ain't what they used to be and never were. Will Rogers Power gravitates to the man who knows how. Orison Swett Marden I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie. Lee Harvey Oswald We never repent of having eaten too little. Thomas Jefferson Biography should be written by an acute enemy. Arthur Balfour It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have. Cliff Richard

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great

- all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there. Marc Jacobs I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. Emily Dickinson You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life. Herbie Hancock He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Menander All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. Richard Barnfield He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Hector Hugh Munro College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back. Ossie Davis

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the

other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America. George W. Bush Where a man can live, he can also live well. Marcus Aurelius I have a very intense marriage. James Ellroy People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude. Ann Landers Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. Pat Riley In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined. Jena Malone The purpose firm is equal to the deed. Edward Young

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who

aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. Hector Hugh Munro I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to. Mariah Carey No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal. Bonnie Blair As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid. Isabel Paterson Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Benjamin Disraeli He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between

the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last. Henry Charles Carey Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. Samuel Johnson When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift Exchange ideas frequently. James Cash Penney You are never really prepared for criticism. Barry Gibb Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Friedrich Engels If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version. Walter Hill

The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company

becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers. Charlie Bell What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? Anais Nin When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types. Cyril Connolly Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. Oscar Levant Perfectionists are their own devils. Jack Kirby In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that. Alvin Dark I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults. Natalie Portman

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and

gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth. Melvin Maddocks It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. Erma Bombeck Bad weather always looks worse through a window. Tom Lehrer Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. Jean Paul God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. Saint Augustine All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. Wislawa Szymborska Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. Laurence Sterne

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists,

they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. James Inhofe If God dropped acid, would he see people? Steven Wright Death, only, renders hope futile. Edgar Rice Burroughs What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. Joseph Brodsky I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important. Natalie Portman By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. Sarah Silverman The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that

in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture. Alex Winter A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. William J. Clinton But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies. Aaron Eckhart Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. Henry Fielding People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. Tony Robbins No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away. Michael W. Smith

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child

and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. James E. Gunn I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny. Jerry Stiller It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people. Bo Bennett I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing. John Deacon In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. George Carlin Nothing leads to good that is not natural. Friedrich Schiller Extend a hand whether or not you know it shall be grasped. Ryunosuke Satoro

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental

part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments. Rudolph A. Marcus I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. Winston Churchill As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously. Alessandro Del Piero Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. John Wooden Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over. Jonathan Bennett He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. Mencius The marathon can humble you. Bill Rodgers

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there

were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. James Thurber No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. Thomas Carlyle Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. Russell Baker Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut. Sparky Anderson A good memory is needed after one has lied. Pierre Corneille I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack. Molly Ringwald Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. Ambrose Bierce

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black

novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together. Stanley Crouch True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Philip Massinger Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. Napoleon Hill Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. Alan Bullock I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. Larry Bird Mastery passes often for egotism. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One must always keep one's government under control. Joe Wilson

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy.

For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? Solomon Short Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror. Caleb Carr You don't have to show people how successful you are. Martin Yan That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. James M. Barrie I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. Jonathan Swift Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. Douglas William Jerrold

Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the

youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people. Bud Selig We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Jimmy Carter How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? Zsa Zsa Gabor Time is the only critic without ambition. John Steinbeck You must stand for free speech in the streets. Mary Harris Jones Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. Vladimir Putin

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend

an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me. Wallace Shawn I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated. James W. Black When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. Bette Davis If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli. Dominic Monaghan Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. William Cowper Musicians own music because music owns them. Virgil Thomson

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I

got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing. Judy Holliday I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down. Janice Dickinson Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. Abu Bakr I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. Dave Navarro Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. Thomas Chandler Haliburton I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. Lenny Bruce Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high. Daisy Donovan

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's

medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there. Kim Cattrall With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. Judd Rose The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray. George Muller Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs. Francesca da Rimini He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down. Vijay Singh Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Homer Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else. Usher

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done

by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. Anthony de Mello Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. Horatio Nelson It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walt Whitman Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe. Iris Chang When the dream came into being, I always pursued it. Marguerite Young Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. Chuck Palahniuk

I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able

to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with. Anne Ford If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint. Edward Tufte Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city. Bryan Q. Miller It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing. Samantha Bee I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. Leo Durocher Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity. Herman Kahn One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. Pablo Picasso

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job

here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. William Kirby I like Church furniture. Andres Serrano Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. Milan Kundera A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Muhammad Ali Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. Penelope Lively Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. Thucydides I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. John Millington Synge

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries

me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Jorge Luis Borges What I like best about music is when time goes away. Bob Weir I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards. Robin Cousins Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. John Lennon I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Heinrich Heine All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. Thomas Beecham We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. Ronald Reagan

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to

support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. John Strachan As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God. John Jewel The grace of God is courtesy. Hilaire Belloc Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. Dag Hammarskjold I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak. Linda Evangelista My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.' Jerry Zucker They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. Richard Burton

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I

like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe. Aaron Sorkin I shudder when relating it. Virgil All pitchers are born pitchers. Joe DiMaggio If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. Woody Allen To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. Mignon McLaughlin

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs

to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works. Pat Garrett Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. Candice Bergen We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. Jacques Yves Cousteau Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. Elizabeth Hardwick I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high. Susan Davis In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. Alexis de Tocqueville It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. Andrew Young

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are

so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. William James At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself. Jeff Lynne You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job. Liev Schreiber I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. Alfred de Musset All objects lose by too familiar a view. John Dryden Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. Mark Twain The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate. Mitchell Baker

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting,

and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me. Jackie Cooper A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. Billie Holiday I told you to sell it, not give it away. Jerome Robbins Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice. Akio Morita The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. Norman O. Brown Wisdom comes by disillusionment. George Santayana Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon. Saddam Hussein

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films

and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something. Jon Voight A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. Charles de Gaulle The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. Tommy Lasorda What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. Fred Allen We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq. Tom Allen Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. W. C. Fields

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and

yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. Michel de Montaigne You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage. Sarah Silverman It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all. Dixie Carter Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. James Reston The lie is a condition of life. Friedrich Nietzsche There is no overacting, only untrue acting. Stellan Skarsgard

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed.

When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things. John Abercrombie Life is like an analogy. Aaron Allston As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. Gustave Flaubert Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. Jim Rohn Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. Bill Bradley In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. Lewis Mumford

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization

should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent. Matt Blunt Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. Maimonides If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. Charlotte Smith The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. Chauncey Depew People tend to believe the bad rather than the good. Giovanni Boccaccio I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious. Peter Steele Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game. Al Davis

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of

such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it. John Nelson Darby The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work. Richard Serra Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. Mae West Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. Pericles A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences. Edward Tufte I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation. Susie Bright

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been

following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. David Cassidy I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me. Henry Thomas I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play. Keith Emerson If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. Calvin Coolidge Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit. Hank Aaron I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life. John Mahoney A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts. Morris Kline

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken

heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind. Philo I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world. Robert Bridges Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer. Louis Bonaparte And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. Cleo Moore When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. Morrissey Being is the great explainer. Henry David Thoreau There's more to light than the opposite of dark. Ric Ocasek

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as

a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark. Calamity Jane In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. Robert Green Ingersoll I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty. William Whipple Nothing is irreparable in politics. Jean Anouilh I don't write for any particular kind of person. Mary Wesley You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. Luc de Clapiers Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot. Bob Dylan

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze

data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. Edward de Bono Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers. Brigitte Boisselier She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head. David Gest What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong. William Lamb Melbourne Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. Aldous Huxley Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. Walter Savage Landor The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in

both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. Benjamin Graham It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does. John Gilpin Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. George Washington Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions. Patricia Ireland My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize. Mary of Teck I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism. Harry Hay I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. Annie Lennox

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they

do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews. Suzanne Fields Generalities don't count and won't help you in football. Knute Rockne Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? Plato Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Thomas Malthus Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment. John Barrow I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist. Marisa Tomei Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. Danny Kaye

I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I

enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly. Scott Bakula The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. Rush Limbaugh Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. Ronald Reagan I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on. Gale Gordon The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. Harry Emerson Fosdick Love begets love. This torment is my joy. Theodore Roethke The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world. Sun Myung Moon

While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal

government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options. Tim Ryan Anyway, there were more after the war than before. Hutton Gibson But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband. Treat Williams The art of life is to show your hand. E. V. Lucas For me, Company is still the best way for me to work. Derek Bailey We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds. Ed Wood Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't.

What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again. M. Night Shyamalan A man must earnestly want. William Frederick Book I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television. Kristen Johnston I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable. Laura Linney The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day. Marc Maron They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988. Sebastian Bach It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. Emile M. Cioran

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life,

you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year. Mila Kunis Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. David Amram We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free. Ronald Reagan Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid. Ellis Peters Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. Mae West A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it. William Ralph Inge I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all

my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music. Jerry Lee Lewis Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. Edward Moore Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. Jim Courier Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. Fernando Flores Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. Bill Richardson

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that

lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play. Sam Shepard Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. Cyril Connolly All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. Friedrich Engels For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. Edwin Way Teale I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough. Jay London Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay. Pam Grier People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not. Tommy Lasorda

Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to

become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take. Mary McDonnell The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. Sydney J. Harris It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. Marguerite Duras A good system shortens the road to the goal. Orison Swett Marden We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves. John McCain I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself. Stuart Appleby The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere. Ian Hunter

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