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There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is

continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous. Lyndon B. Johnson You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for. Barbara Mikulski A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. Mickey Mantle Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. Richard Bach Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. Charles Caleb Colton I didn't have the base I needed to win the election. Rodney Alexander Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce

I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a

great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too. Walt Alston It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. Charles Kettering Love's an excuse to get hurt. Conor Oberst You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. Frank Gehry Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved. Larry Flynt I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. Chuck Palahniuk The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambara

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on

the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. Lionel Trilling Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. Rodney Dangerfield I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty. Connie Willis The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate. Chuck Grassley In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. Solon Every human longs for peace and love. Hiawatha

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information

so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer. John Edward Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. Tom Stoppard I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. Susie Bright Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!' Donald Trump Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. Robert Orben I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams. Charles Keating What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. Sonia Johnson

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no

she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.' Tommy Bond What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches. Gregory Peck After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. John Huston A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy. Julie Benz To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. Anthony Burgess By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. Norman Ralph Augustine

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I

dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show. Emily Mortimer An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Nicholas M. Butler Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing. David Naughton The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now. Jimmy Rushing When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role. Lori Loughlin One with the law is a majority. Calvin Coolidge You are a black goddess when you come out the salon. Jenifer Lewis

When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and

not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me. Chester Brown All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore. Henry Thomas But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting. Frank Langella I'm very much a family person. Barry Gibb I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes. Henry Darrow When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. Mahatma Gandhi

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form

between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly. Janet Malcolm Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. Richard Linklater Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. Jules Renard I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. William Weld The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. Stan Brakhage Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. Edward Coke Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing. Cyndi Lauper

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I

think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. Jerry Seinfeld To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. Thomas Chandler Haliburton He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. Charles Caleb Colton Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. Arthur Baer Education is the mother of leadership. Wendell Willkie Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. Barbara Kruger Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. Charles de Gaulle

I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can

find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me. Linda Hamilton A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself. Kenneth Williams Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last. Charles de Gaulle Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. John Dryden When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. George Bernard Shaw Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. Charles de Montesquieu You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought. John Greenleaf Whittier

My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real

logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age. Brian Austin Green Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot. Colin Greenwood He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor. Venerable Bede There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall. Henry Hyde The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. Abraham Maslow Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. Hippocrates A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur. Douglas Hurd

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and

historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources. Jared Diamond Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald. Navjot Singh Sidhu Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. Will Cuppy Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. Lucretius I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly. Suzy Bogguss There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. Steven Levy

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve

the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process. Alanis Morissette If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose. Bobby Moore Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place. David R. Brower Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable. James McGreevey Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. Yasser Arafat

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida

at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others. Jeb Bush In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. Simone Weil My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. Bill Toomey I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right. Tracy Chapman Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. Lester B. Pearson The best way to know God is to love many things. Vincent Van Gogh

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You

can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer. Shannon Hoon Man proposes, woman forecloses. Minna Antrim Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. Muddy Waters The one they always forget is Brad Dexter. Robert Vaughn I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA. Martin Fry It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch All movements go too far. Bertrand Russell

Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not

going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes. Dave Obey The only thing better than singing is more singing. Ella Fitzgerald Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. Mary Webb No crime is so great as daring to excel. Winston Churchill Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. Charles Kettering It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with. Steve Carell The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. Denis Healey

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct

result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. Christopher Hampton We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington. Tom Hicks The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers. William Robertson Smith War settles nothing. Dwight D. Eisenhower In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock. William Brewster Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. James Allen I don't think it's by any means an end to my career. Mario Vazquez

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After

I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding? James Caan Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. Theodor Adorno Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well. Tanya Tucker The trick is to be there when it's settled. Arthur Goldberg I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'. Brandon Lee The public school has become the established church of secular society. Ivan Illich

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own

technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job. Nigel Kennedy I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday. Rufus Wainwright If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. John Cleese Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. Ludwig Wittgenstein Prim and proper white women, I like what I see. Guy Madison If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart. Lars von Trier The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. Eric Allin Cornell

I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where

people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal. Jon Crosby The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door. Martin McGuinness We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond. Zack Wamp You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out. Eddie Perez Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. Ad Reinhardt

I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and

ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know? Jennifer Love Hewitt A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition. James Cash Penney An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. Jean Anouilh I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir. Lizzie Andrew Borden It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. Betty Friedan I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11. Sadie Frost Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. Igor Stravinsky

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones

with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. Jules Massenet The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world. Arthur Eddington We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose. Jason Williams The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. Ralph Waldo Emerson Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. Ouida All artists are now free to express their own personality. Maurice Denis Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well. Michael Ende

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on

so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. Ronald Blythe Never assume the obvious is true. William Safire A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. David Amram What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. E. W. Howe With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them. John McGraw I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture. Dorothy Malone Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye. George S. Kaufman

For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just

insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down. Julia Ormond They have hijacked my religion. Cat Stevens It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today. John Bracken We will burn that bridge when we come to it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems. Julie Bishop I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too. Honor Blackman What are we out at the park for, except to win? Leo Durocher

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with

you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? Walt Whitman The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is. Takeshi Kitano For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way. Chris Bailey You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. Noam Chomsky Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug. Bill Condon Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. Mike Pence

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in

Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own. John Lynch In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being. Bryant H. McGill Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. James K. Polk So foul and fair a day I have not seen. William Shakespeare The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does. Kathy Valentine Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest. Jef I. Richards

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to

anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film. Richard Lester I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. Arsenio Hall In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. Franklin D. Roosevelt I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House. Seymour Hersh The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. Herman Wouk The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. Fisher Ames I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep. Ann Wilson

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours.

I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. James Thurber I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power. Manmohan Singh A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are. Robert Cray Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. Gary Ryan Blair The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. George Orwell It takes two hands to clap. Jiang Zemin The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. Henry Kissinger

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking

on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends. Steve Nash It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts. Seymour Hersh Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? Virgil There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word. Brett Hull Votes should be weighed not counted. Friedrich Schiller I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside. Mo Udall The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. Karl Marx

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false

assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens. Eduard Hanslick I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! Tom Lehrer I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. Robert Indiana Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. John Petit-Senn If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. Neal Barnard Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. Robert E. Lee Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. Leo Rosten

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it

was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV. Rupert Holmes You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. Douglas Coupland It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you. Jim Broadbent A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. F. Scott Fitzgerald In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old. John C. Hawkes If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. John D. Rockefeller Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. Anaxagoras

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was

four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me. Giovanni Ribisi I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. Arnold J. Toynbee Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. Friedrich Schiller The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. Jim Elliot The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'? Rob Zombie The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones. Jerome Hines

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they

have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? Alexis de Tocqueville Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. John Dryden I don't much like looking back. Walter Hill Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? Jenny Weber Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. Stonewall Jackson If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries. David Hunt

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes

concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. Charlie Dent Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful. Kathleen Winsor No one is laughable who laughs at himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to. Chris Rock Architecture is politics. Mitchell Kapor Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. Theodore Roosevelt Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car. Jack Lemmon

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We

have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. Paul Sarbanes Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. Hosea Ballou Music is a dialogue. Alex Van Halen Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. Dennis Banks It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. Horace Mann Venus favors the bold. Ovid It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said. David Letterman

There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with

a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own. Norm Coleman Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. Samuel Johnson People just loved the sound because I kept it simple. Dick Dale Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money. John Fahey What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. Susan George I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself. Al Lewis Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. Mahatma Gandhi

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many

different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity. Lamar Alexander It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. William Wordsworth We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas A. Edison Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part. Emeril Lagasse I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me. Mary Harris Jones Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. Jean Paul

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view

of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected. Albert Speer It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one. Chuck Tanner It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. Jerry Springer I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case. Mario Monti Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. Alexander Woollcott I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done. David Naughton My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico. Gloria Trevi

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and

large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. Ernest Mandel Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. A. A. Milne One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. Loren Eiseley I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion. Joss Whedon One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements. Michael Shermer If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world. Jena Malone I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. Rick Allen

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions.

Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. Chuck Palahniuk It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. Tryon Edwards I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out. Judith Light Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. Terry Wogan Where there is a worker, there lies a nation. Evita Peron I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. Terri Windling

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride

and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time. Josh Holloway No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful. Maya Rudolph Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. Theodor Adorno Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. John Dryden You can't win unless you learn how to lose. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Peace is obtained by war. Cornelius Nepos Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. John Acton

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not

want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats. Dick Gephardt I like children - fried. W. C. Fields He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. Bill Dana Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society. Ahmet Necdet Sezner The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people. Mark Ruffalo I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out. John Glover I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know. William Least Heat-Moon

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for

our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96. Joe Lieberman The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker Plodding wins the race. Aesop The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. Leslie Stephen I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. Ayaan Hirsi Ali Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. Walker Percy The groundwork of all happiness is health. Leigh Hunt

New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree

to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement. Mary C. Jones Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. Gore Vidal We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent. Pierre Nicole If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Muhammad Iqbal The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. Hillary Clinton I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible. Richard Thompson Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard. David Gest

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves

what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. John Rawls Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. Henri Frederic Amiel I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do. Mariah Carey Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. Martin Luther I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music. John Frusciante Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up. Colin Powell

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and

the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. Thornton Wilder It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians. Wanda Sykes I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could. Chester Gould Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. Alfred A. Montapert It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. Sophocles I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. Kathy Griffin It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return. Paul Gillmor

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another

thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything. Dan Hicks I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. Henry David Thoreau It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state. Sean Hannity Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty. Britney Spears And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of. Nastassja Kinski The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. James Howell I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary. Jane Harman

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland

to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America. Jim Walsh Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. Anita Brookner The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'. Morgan Brittany How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. Publilius Syrus Maria is the best reason to come home. Arnold Schwarzenegger All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League. A. Bartlett Giamatti Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. Edsger Dijkstra

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you

options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call. Russell Crowe Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. Mark Twain One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. Harold Pinter You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius Self-made men often worship their creator. Bryant H. McGill I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it. Juice Newton The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do. Ted Shackelford

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such

as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want. William Kirby Love's stronger than fear and death. Steve Hackett Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. Moliere For us... you know, we're not The Beatles. Bruce Johnston I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. Mira Nair Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective. Lewis Thompson Preston I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. Kirsten Dunst

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were

an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. John Adams The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. Giotto di Bondone I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie. Thomas Haden Church I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won. Ron Atkinson A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. Thomas Moore There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. Thomas Hardy You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. Mickey Mantle

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I

was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch. Antonio Banderas Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. Pat Riley Vice stirs up war, virtue fights. Luc de Clapiers It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. Henry Adams America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore. Nick Clooney All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. John Stuart Mill Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. Bernard Baruch

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it

and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money. Tony Oliva You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it. Rachel McAdams You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. Denis Waitley If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir. William Tecumseh Sherman I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president. Paul D. Boyer My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. Georg Solti The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are

already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military. Duncan Hunter If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Winston Churchill Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese. Nick Cannon The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. Michelangelo How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? John Ruskin God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. Johann Gottlieb Fichte I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business. Steve Brown

As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the

city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing. Vincent Frank Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde If I can talk, I can sing. John Raitt Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. George Bernard Shaw Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair. Suzanne Vega To err is human, to purr feline. Robert Byrne I believe in the greatness of our people. Chen Shui-bian

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside,

and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children. Gordon Smith Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. Octave Mirbeau I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past. Harry Hamlin The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. Voltaire Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question. Neale Donald Walsch My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. Beatrice Wood I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team. Just Fontaine

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in

an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. Friedrich August von Hayek Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. Liz Smith Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth. Roy Barnes You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake, I said you are a fruitcake. Pete Stark Ability is nothing without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. Dave Pelzer As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. Cokie Roberts

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been

left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state? John Strachan A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger! Sun Ra If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all. Archer John Porter Martin Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. Damien Hirst If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things. Byron Dorgan Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. Charles Francis Richter Every good painter paints what he is. Jackson Pollock

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough

guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym. Gerry Cooney As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful. Carrie Underwood I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street. Alice Barrett The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together. Bernard Ebbers Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy? Casey Affleck In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest. Bob Gibson Good talkers are only found in Paris. Francois Villon

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and

do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. Don Miguel Ruiz I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world. Edgar Guest God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. Isaac Bashevis Singer Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. Lord Byron A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership. Christiane Amanpour

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces

the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. George Pierce Baker I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day. Bobby Sherman The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. Ida Tarbell For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut. Joss Stone Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. Victor Hugo Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism. Benazir Bhutto

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with

three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head. Cyndi Lauper A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Baltasar Gracian I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal. Karen Hughes We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show. Herb Alpert Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel. John Galliano Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. Robert Wyatt No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. Henri Poincare

Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time

and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose. Jim Steinman I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything. Rodney Carrington It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. Jean Racine Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. Walter Cronkite Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated. Kim Young-sam The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Georg Hermes Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. Henri Rousseau

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500

in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose. Anna Kournikova Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential. Aung San Suu Kyi Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. Dale Carnegie Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. Jean Kerr Let's nail it down, let's get it right. Frank Reynolds Fools are without number. Desiderius Erasmus Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything. GG Allin

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody

shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going. Garry Marshall Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. J. G. Stedman The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country. George B. McClellan Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors. Bernie Mac Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. Robert Louis Stevenson When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. E. W. Howe If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable. Horst Koehler

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects.

That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision. Bobby Brown Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. Brian Clough Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. Tennessee Williams The Price Is Right can really get me going. Sam Peckinpah And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. Jean Ingelow I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light. Chubby Checker I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun. Bonnie Blair

I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids

and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all. Nick Lachey Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. Billie Holiday All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond. Shania Twain TV is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. Chester A. Arthur As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool. Kevin Mitnick You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face. Daisy Ashford

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than

to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. William Jackson Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. Daniel J. Boorstin Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music. Georgie Fame What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation. Gale Norton What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt? Charlotte Ross Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker. Robert B. Parker Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. Pearl S. Buck

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the

roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. Brendan Behan The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves. David Seabury I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size. Dana Hill If I wanted to do wrong, I could not. Louis Bonaparte Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right. Phil McGraw It's hard to determine where lies culpability. Roger Mahony I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. Rodney Dangerfield

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and

stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is. Kate Bosworth I think it's great when girls are artistic. Henry Thomas Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero. Tommy Franks We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. James Madison Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. Washington Allston I want to democratize business news. Neil Cavuto Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. George S. Patton

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are

the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican. Marion Barry Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place. John Buford No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us. David Hilbert I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training. Deborah Bull Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that. Fran Drescher Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. Tallulah Bankhead The end of a picture is always an end of a life. Sam Peckinpah

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something

I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man. Adam Baldwin One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get. Bo Diddley The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. H. G. Wells My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. Agnes Martin No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work. Rosa Parks

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and

say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple. Pete Townshend Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you. Bruce Henderson The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. Harold Evans A word to the wise is enough. Plautus Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese. Dennis Miller Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Alvin Toffler Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. Plato

I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or

in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to. Andrew Shue The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me. Todd Bridges If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing. Billy Sheehan The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated. Douglas Horton Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. Edmund Waller Vigorous writing is concise. William Strunk, Jr. Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. Thomas Huxley

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation.

The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. Graham Greene All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. Dave Grohl I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business. Vash Young I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing. Damien Hirst I believe in being an innovator. Walt Disney When the devil grows old he turns hermit. Ludovico Ariosto You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. Bruce Lee

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to

cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. Joseph Fiennes All I want to do is sing on other people's records. Neko Case Thank God I'm an atheist. Luis Bunuel I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand. Sanjay Kumar Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry. Henry Ward Beecher Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. Henri Frederic Amiel Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. Johann G. Seume

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your

own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. Horatio Nelson Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Plato When I was a kid... I needed to belong. Wally Lamb Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world. Dizzy Dean The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. V. S. Pritchett That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. Amos Bronson Alcott We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Isaac Newton

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that

distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. Thomas Reid When you get married you forget about kissing other women. Pat Boone Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. Jonathan Swift Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. Yogi Berra My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh. Kristen Johnston I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. Barbara Kruger The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps. Thomas Leonard

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would

be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me. Britney Spears I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it! Geri Halliwell I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die. William Wiley I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard. George Eads A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. George Herbert Mead It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Amelia Barr The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. Eric Hoffer

Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge

to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young. Graham Nash The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk. Alben W. Barkley Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. William Least Heat-Moon What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. Margaret Spellings When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. Denis Waitley Honor wears different coats to different eyes. Barbara Tuchman It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. David Baker

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to

hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. Kim Il-sung Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. Viktor E. Frankl In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. Robert W. Welch, Jr. Ninety percent of everything is crap. Theodore Sturgeon Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice. Kathy Griffin Who will protect the public when the police violate the law? Ramsey Clark In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did. Jerry Hunt

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may

cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. Joshua Chamberlain Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Mark Akenside Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God. Victoria Jackson When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. George Pataki Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. John Selden I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. Mark Twain

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk

sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing. Andrea Corr Everybody knows what's going on. Even if they don't watch it they know what's happening. Carrie Underwood My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. Mary Shelley It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. Robert Bly I always find stuff in my characters to relate to. Gerard Butler Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. James Anthony Froude Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting. Jane Fonda

I was in Tower Records in San Francisco a few weeks ago, buying some cassettes,

and a couple of people recognized me and ran up with albums, and I just wanted to cover my face and have a seizure or something. I want people to just go away. Christine McVie We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue. Sarah Brady It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times. Thomas Reed You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend. John Travolta You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. Terry Pratchett In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. Thorstein Veblen A bowler can make or break a chap. John Newton

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out

the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. Charles W. Chesnutt There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it. Louis Prima I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best. Barry Sanders Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. Larry McMurtry Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. Frank B. Kellogg Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know. John Deacon

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or

uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. Ian Mcewan You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. Henry Ward Beecher I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Haley Joel Osment Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. Eric Hoffer I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home. Hakeem Olajuwon From 1961 to 1965 Barney and I had not seen another UFO. Betty Hill The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world. Colin Powell

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might

originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. Saul Bellow I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. Unknown You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. Creighton Abrams War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. Scott Nearing When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate. Marc Maron Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult. Krzysztof Kieslowski

I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to

that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies. Ryan Gosling I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Mahatma Gandhi What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. Arnold H. Glasow I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations. Barbra Streisand Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band. Gene Simmons I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible. Jay Roach

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for

60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again. John Raleigh Mott The temple of art is built in words. Josiah Gilbert Holland Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me. Bette Davis Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. Sidney Hook A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Rudyard Kipling For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. Ludwig Wittgenstein The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. E. T. Bell

I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd

like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working. Robbie Williams The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Pierre Corneille When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different. Cliff Richard Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut. Duane G. Carey The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over. Mike Rounds Understanding is a two-way street. Eleanor Roosevelt Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been. Ruth Ann Minner

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of

record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging. Art Garfunkel Elektra has no control over the live show, at least. Mike Gordon It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. Samuel Johnson A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. Aldous Huxley You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap. Steven Tyler What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? Gore Vidal The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. Andre Gide

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property

on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. June Jordan No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. Ronald Reagan I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. Richard M. Nixon Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read. Heywood Broun I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. Frank Zappa I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong. Murray Walker

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be.

At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen. Gordon Gould It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind. Richard G. Scott If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that. James Marsden To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. Alexander Calder We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us. Jean de La Fontaine Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot. John Philpot Curran Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. Noam Chomsky

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into

this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books. Robert Asprin We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. Douglas Horton Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. Benjamin Franklin All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. George Edward Moore When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror. Margaret Turnbull A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. John Burroughs

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the

occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. Stanley Crouch Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Voltaire I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. Hubert H. Humphrey When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. Sun Tzu I'm not too good at lying still in the sun. Vince McMahon Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily. Vint Cerf

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give

tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks. Adam Faith Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. Alan Parker My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way. Hilary Duff I have never been hurt by what I have not said. Calvin Coolidge I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. Bette Midler I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. Hunter S. Thompson

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions,

different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry. Loretta Sanchez I want to run until I can't run. Bill Rodgers Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D. H. Lawrence It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams. Joel Madden Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. Lamar S. Smith We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. Lily Tomlin

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we

cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. Christy Mathewson I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. Elayne Boosler Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. Kin Hubbard The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin We do not judge great art. It judges us. Caroline Gordon Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. Louis Pasteur

You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human

life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. Neil Sheehan He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. George Santayana It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them. Robert De Niro Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Athenaeus I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. Donna Tartt I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic. William Drummond

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays,

but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option. Dan Marino Coincidences are spiritual puns. Gilbert K. Chesterton If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. Lionel Jospin To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. Virginia Woolf No man should have a political office because he wants a job. Franklin Knight Lane Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. Algernon Sidney I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us. Bennie Thompson

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present,

was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes. Ali Khamenei It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century. David Soul Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product. Friedrich August von Hayek Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes. Aaron Klug I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course. Jeremy London It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. Mae West

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible

for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. Aldous Huxley If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn. Hayden Fry Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine. Frank Whittle History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. Malcolm X What I do and what I record only work for the moment. Leon Redbone Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. Warren E. Burger I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester. Peter Krause

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many

people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level. Stephen Lewis They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. Robert Frost Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. Mahatma Gandhi Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. Seth Lloyd I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else. Aretha Franklin Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care. Julie Bishop One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you. Hilary Swank

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that

is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner. Bill Richardson Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Ralph Waldo Emerson If you fire people, you fire customers. Ferdinand Piech People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all. Maggie Smith The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together. Bill Frist We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place. Larry Craig I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats. Lydia Lunch

One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think

in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years. Jay Rockefeller I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ. John Nelson Darby A winning effort begins with preparation. Joe Gibbs Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. Pearl S. Buck I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing. Al Yankovic Nobody sets out to make a bad record. Alex Van Halen Children always turn to the light. David Hare

The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute.

I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl. Robbie Williams So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot. Jeffery Deaver Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others. Tim Bishop Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love. Mark McKinney The difficulty in life is the choice. George A. Moore If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. Arnold Bennett We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one. Esther Williams

I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want

to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view. Franka Potente I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. Arnold Palmer Germany is very free-trade oriented. Gerhard Schroder I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. Ayaan Hirsi Ali It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. O. Henry One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act. Angie Everhart I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one! Tyne Daly

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and

the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. Don Bluth I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. Albrecht Durer I always liked the intensity of the recording. Chris Bailey If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me. Ted Allen Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. Emma Goldman GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do. Tony Scott

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence,

and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. Edward Forbes Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house. Tanya Tucker The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. Carl Sandburg I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. Muhammad Ali Faith: not wanting to know what is true. Friedrich Nietzsche Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them. Roh Moo-hyun I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth. Barbara Cartland

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been

qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means. Sonny Bono Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale. Edward Coke I'm really funny now. Wanda Sykes The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. Alvin Toffler The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Sigmund Freud I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. Muhammad Ali I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. Elijah Wood

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting

the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly. Lesley Garrett He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none. Thomas Fuller Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. Jean Anouilh Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it. Catherine Keener Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. Esther Williams It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living. Richard Marx In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. William Lyon Phelps

Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a

full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night. John Hunter All you owe the public is a good performance. Humphrey Bogart Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. Epictetus An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. George Bernard Shaw It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. Stephen Breyer Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Francis Bacon Reality in our century is not something to be faced. Graham Greene

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And

if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision. Lydia Lunch Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. Charles Baudelaire The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them. Samuel McChord Crothers The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative. Harry Browne Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things. Joe Paterno Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you. Gloria Gaynor I hope I will have achieved something lasting. Graham Chapman

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of

myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that. Gene Hackman If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores. Gerard Depardieu I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros. Maria Sharapova I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling. Joan Severance The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld There are many victories worse than a defeat. George Eliot I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce. Alan Autry

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it

may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party. Dylan Thomas Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works. Shah Rukh Khan Nature abhors annihilation. Marcus Tullius Cicero The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. Saint Augustine Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. Ernest Hello Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. Michael McKean

I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from

me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python. Yukihiro Matsumoto We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. Anatole France Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up. Malcolm Campbell Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. Iris Murdoch Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all. Thomas Fuller I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. Richard Branson You sparkle with larceny. Wilson Mizner

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I

work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck. Alanis Morissette In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. May Sarton Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it. Josh Lucas Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. Charles Caleb Colton But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince. John Jewel Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident. Dale Carnegie You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. Earl Weaver

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not

being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears. Michael Flanders Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way. Christiane Amanpour I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. Oscar Wilde Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace. Douglas Feith That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore. Hirohito The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. Lao Tzu

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting

anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did. Charlie Daniels War is the ultimate reality-based horror show. David Hackworth Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. Nicholson Baker Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. Benjamin Disraeli I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases. Paige Davis There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises. P. J. Harvey Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. Ross Perot

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star.

For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time. Esther Williams Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Diane Ackerman Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. Robert Louis Stevenson If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. Lillian Hellman You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. A. A. Milne I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'. Chris Kirkpatrick

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with

anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself. Robbie Williams Gee I don't know, I just want to get home. Dale Murphy Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. Suzanne Farrell We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives. Robin Gibb When all is said and done, more is said than done. Lou Holtz Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. Benjamin Franklin In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to

write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. John Dalton Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. Claude Debussy Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. Irving Babbitt Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused. Liev Schreiber I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen Don't give advice unless you're asked. Amy Alcott Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. Norman Ralph Augustine

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at

the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. Lloyd Bentsen There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam. Eliza Cook Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed. Blanche Lincoln The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril . Alfred Loisy Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget. Lou Diamond Phillips I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table. Benjamin Netanyahu Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman. Angelina Jolie

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that

my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts. Blanche Lincoln If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. Mencius A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Iris Murdoch Solitude is the place of purification. Martin Buber Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. Laurence Sterne I believe you have to nurture your conscience. Loretta Young Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. Thelma Ritter

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