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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot

exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Walter Scott At this point, I'm spoiled. I've actually had a really blessed career. Peter Krause My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss. Edward Dyer As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was. Wanda Jackson No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. Franz Kafka I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. Elizabeth Taylor I love the most the students with troubled lives. Wally Lamb

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity,

raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages. Matt Gonzalez What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. Voltaire All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. Lucy Stone I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble. Angelina Jolie When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Joseph P. Kennedy

We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's

very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. Alberto Gonzales A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. Rudolph Valentino A charming woman is a busy woman. Loretta Young Change is not only likely, it's inevitable. Barbara Sher I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made. Jim Doyle Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. George Pierce Baker It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. Gloria Steinem

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need

is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved. Jim Dale Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past. Gary Ryan Blair Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. Elbert Hubbard It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. Richard M. DeVos My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. Isabelle Huppert I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids. Benjamin Bratt More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. Saint Teresa of Avila

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone

was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history. Rick James There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here. Eddie Campbell You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you. Morgan Brittany A song is the most intangible thing in the world. Jimmie Davis Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. Harriet Ann Jacobs Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. Johann Kaspar Lavater Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Stephen Samuel Wise

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe

it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older. Isaac Hayes I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn. Rachel Stevens It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. Brad Henry I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill. Toni Braxton We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. Quintilian How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Alexander Pope I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Alfred North Whitehead

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire

in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. Donald Kagan My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington. Barack Obama On their own merits modest men are dumb. George Colman Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. Samuel Johnson The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. Frederik Pohl By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful. Gerry Cooney If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. Alex Trebek

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they

have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created. Michael Schumacher I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years. Hugh Jackman What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. Andy Summers I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. Barry Mann It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people. Stockwell Day Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. Saul Bellow

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me

like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything. Mitch McConnell I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that. Chris Cooper The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located. Donald Knuth I have a Father's Day every day. Dennis Banks To live without Hope is to Cease to live. Fyodor Dostoevsky The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear. Karl Shapiro I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. Hilaire Belloc

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were

much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't. Thomas Gold Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. Confucius Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up. Donald Rumsfeld Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you. Simon Travaglia Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. Oscar Levant I don't read Science Fiction. Brent Spiner Jokes are grievances. Marshall McLuhan

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of

us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do. Isaac Bashevis Singer The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself. Aaron Allston An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. Charles Kettering The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. Thales Crying wolf is a real danger. David Attenborough Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Thomas Carlyle I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa

I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and

saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get. Mike Judge I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt. Edie Falco Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any. Daisy Bates Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Thomas de Quincey Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. Curtis Mayfield The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes. John Lone What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it. Dan Rather

With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon

and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable. Greg Walden Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake. Roger Mahony Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. Chuck Schumer If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? Lily Tomlin I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school. Estelle Morris My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him. Amy Sedaris Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry. Benny Hinn

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The

effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. Harold H. Greene I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill. John C. Reilly Time brings all things to pass. Aeschylus My motto - sans limites. Isadora Duncan An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. Gilbert K. Chesterton The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. Thomas Jefferson To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. Stephen Breyer

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good

art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible. bell hooks It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know. Tony Robbins Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. Wislawa Szymborska An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. Jules Renard Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. Kin Hubbard I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? Kristin Scott Thomas

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't

know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event. Dick Fosbury A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. John Galsworthy Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses. Gale Norton Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands. Ryszard Kapuscinski The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. Huey Newton Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. John Ruskin I think abortion is murder. Victoria Jackson

It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the

fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together. Chick Corea Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. Norman Macleod Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. David Bailey Zippy is living in the moment. Bill Griffith Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad. Paul A. Volcker I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today. Guy Pearce If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets. Peter Davison

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since

I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings. Tom Wesselmann The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. Henry Ward Beecher It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. Douglas Adams I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad. Anacreon Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Erich Fromm In war there is no substitute for victory. Douglas MacArthur I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. Etty Hillesum

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a

story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get. Howard Fineman Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. G. M. Trevelyan Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. Horace Mann Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. Maynard James Keenan Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage. Timothy Spall Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller. Amber Benson I think, I would guess most people keep secrets. Beau Bridges

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings

and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before. Bill Griffith I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group. Gerard Depardieu I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. Leo Rosten Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. Sydney J. Harris Art is born of humiliation. W. H. Auden Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. Stanley Crouch I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like. Jerry Garcia

We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our

one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. Hussein of Jordan I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life. Julia Roberts I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it. Stephen Breyer It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. Philip Green If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. Woodrow Wilson I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player. Karen Black That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards. Bill Lee

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions

doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony. Chubby Checker The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to. Paula Danziger In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld All diseases run into one, old age. Ralph Waldo Emerson In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along. Fred Ward Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment. Joan Crawford And, of course, Barbados is the other place where I like to be. Cliff Richard

And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then

all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have. Jim Bolger The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. Jeffrey Sachs I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living. Stephen Evans Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining. Cher Hug the shore; let others try the deep. Virgil Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle. Arlo Guthrie

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book

is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet. Neale Donald Walsch They're not going to get me. John Dillinger To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. Robert Burton No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. Miguel de Cervantes I've struggled just as much as anyone else. Kathy Valentine Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. Bill Walsh I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships. David Schwimmer

Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad

girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress. Olivia De Havilland Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out. Adrienne Gusoff He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. Walt Whitman Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order. John Gotti I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer. Carol Bellamy Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. W. Clement Stone The first mistake in public business is the going into it. Benjamin Franklin

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in

December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms. Whitey Herzog Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. Robert A. Heinlein Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Edgar Allan Poe I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test. Mary-Kate Olsen This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. Thomas Dekker Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. Grace Darling The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. John Berger

It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services

available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement. Olympia Snowe The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. Kenneth L. Pike Money costs too much. Ross MacDonald Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. Vernon Howard She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him. David Gest How vain, without the merit, is the name. Homer I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone. Richard Marx

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country.

Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather. Dan Rather No person has the right to rain on your dreams. Marian Wright Edelman I was not someone who participated in other people's castles. Stephan Jenkins Age does not matter if the matter does not age. Jean Paul Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film. Frank Darabont Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. Blaise Pascal One often has need of one, inferior to himself. Jean de La Fontaine

He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he

is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed. William Pepper There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy. William Weld One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown We are each other's magnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Mark Twain We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing. Eddie Bernice Johnson A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. Emile M. Cioran

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your

love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. Mary Manin Morrissey My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together. Kurt Schwitters Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. Arthur Schopenhauer I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist. Roland Emmerich Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Charles Lamb Friendship is Love without his wings! Lord Byron All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism? Frank Harris

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man

embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. D. H. Lawrence If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt Fellini belongs to nature. Roberto Benigni I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time. Ashton Kutcher God does not play dice. Albert Einstein I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me. Dick Dale You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather. Chuck Tanner

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same

time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise. Mike Davidson We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves. Smokey Robinson The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. Benjamin Disraeli People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them. Brian Koslow Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. James Monroe There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. Helen Rowland Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. Francis Picabia

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of

natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general. Jiang Zemin I love songs that are very autobiographical. Alanis Morissette I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here. S. E. Hinton When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. Joe Namath My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. Gig Young Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it. Jenifer Lewis

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured

such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. Mary Wollstonecraft There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. Robert De Niro I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act. Morris Chestnut I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. Emile M. Cioran I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government. Yitzhak Rabin I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students. Ruth J. Simmons But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape. Richard Serra

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a

lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party. Gene Simmons A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary. Jef Raskin Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows. Al Unser The scars of others should teach us caution. St. Jerome Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? Groucho Marx Getting caught is the mother of invention. Robert Byrne There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing. Fiona Shaw

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff

on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. Groucho Marx Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. Linus Torvalds Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought. Chet Huntley A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. Jose Marti Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. Samuel Butler You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God. Ruth St. Denis

We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin

as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set. Nikki Cox It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable? Catharine MacKinnon Always try the problem that matters most to you. Andrew Wiles You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. Henry Ward Beecher A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Better to fight for something than live for nothing. George S. Patton

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about

me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become. Julia Roberts The future is wider than vision, and has no end. Donald G. Mitchell As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do. Elias Canetti There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. Orison Swett Marden She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. Thomas Nelson Page When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play. Martin Yan I always entertain great hopes. Robert Frost

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was

at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor. Alan Lomax Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free. Barry Pepper Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. Miguel de Cervantes The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive. Colin Greenwood I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges The words of the songs speak for themselves. Cat Stevens I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. Michel de Montaigne

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this

stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery. Ed Wood Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst. Campbell Scott It's fun to play the character and then watch him later. Michael Shanks I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Robert Ballard Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. W. C. Fields We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises. Bob Iger

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake

or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. Albert Claude Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Rudyard Kipling I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. Young Buck The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. Abraham Lincoln I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum. Robbie Williams People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition. Bob Nelson The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. Dick Spring

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a

filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. Alejandro Amenabar I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity. Kristen Johnston Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. Wayne Dyer We came up with three core touchy feely words. James Frank How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. Gilbert K. Chesterton Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know. Brett Hull I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything. Aaron Spelling

The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the

potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions. Michael K. Powell Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. Sallust We need a common enemy to unite us. Condoleezza Rice I was a stunt man for 35 years. Richard Farnsworth War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. Percy Bysshe Shelley If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable. Shania Twain Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. Tommy Lasorda

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely

in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. Benjamin Disraeli We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq. Jalal Talabani Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. Richard Cecil It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. John Maynard Keynes The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Gustave Flaubert When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. Samuel Johnson I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with. Bonnie Raitt

Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing

our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back. Mark Sanford A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. William James I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots. Wynonna Judd I'm not mean, just aggressive. Harvey Martin An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. Willem de Kooning In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. Alan Perlis Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. Kin Hubbard

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research.

Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. Laurell K. Hamilton My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. Mahatma Gandhi The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Francis Bacon As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. Helen Keller Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? Aeschylus Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. Ellen Terry Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end. June Carter Cash

It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something

you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well. Sean Booth There are heroes in evil as well as in good. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe. Louis Farrakhan Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this? Mark E. Smith Gray hair is God's graffiti. Bill Cosby Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win. Deion Sanders It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way. Warren Ellis

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I

came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food. Frank McCourt And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to matter more than the things you say. Tim Rice A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. Liberty Hyde Bailey If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music. Buck Owens No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby. Paul Ince Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. Rita Rudner

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script.

We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge. Donna Douglas Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. Edward Abbey It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. Jean Cocteau When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor E. Frankl At Motel 6 in Amish Country I wonder if they leave the light on for you? Jay London When all else fails, complicate matters. Aaron Allston Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done. Jef Raskin

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and

all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of. Stockwell Day We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. Voltaire Belief is thought at rest. Larry Harvey It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. Mark Twain The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else. Whitey Herzog Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet. Saint Augustine You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. Maxwell Maltz

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if

it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? Yogi Berra Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. Marian Wright Edelman The cat is a dilettante in fur. Theophile Gautier Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work. Morris Chestnut It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. Quintilian Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emile M. Cioran Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism. Stockwell Day

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that

makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. Marcel Proust There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels. Honor Blackman Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. Milan Kundera Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. Samuel Johnson One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. Merle Shain I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. Norman Rockwell Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red

lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels. Dennis Miller When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. James Truslow Adams Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions. Bert Lahr I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. Robbie Coltrane Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. Jim Bishop

Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several

of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood. Vic Morrow We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. Orison Swett Marden For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. Matthew Prior There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. Frank Herbert Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has. Lars Ulrich Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer. Terry Semel I think rock records tend to be very expensive. Andy Summers

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even

in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses. Yitzhak Shamir I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work. Josh Lucas Justice is the truth in action. Joseph Joubert The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli The wise does at once what the fool does at last. Baltasar Gracian Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. William S. Burroughs Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again. Ruth Ann Minner

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come

to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. James Laughlin Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life. Ty Cobb When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. Nelson Mandela No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. Thomas Hobbes I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses. Renee Zellweger A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. Charles Spurgeon Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. Kaiser Wilhelm

I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had

a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe. Vince Carter He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut. Robert De Niro I didn't get to the Senate by accident. John Edwards Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Joseph Brodsky A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Roald Dahl

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those

of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. Marquis de Sade If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make. Drew Endy Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. Nelson Algren I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad. Julia Roberts It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. Lincoln Steffens

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some

of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players. Bob Lilly People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. George Bernard Shaw You learn to know a pilot in a storm. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides. Scott Weiland Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors. Thayer David It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. Publilius Syrus I love what I do and I love the fans. George Eads

This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And

when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity. George Pataki Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money. Richard King What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews? Pontius Pilate Really to sin you have to be serious about it. Henrik Ibsen There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy. Robert Evans You do something annual every year, don't you? George Noory I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. Wally Lamb

Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it

was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him. Stephen Breyer And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time. Carl Yastrzemski I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all. Alan Bates The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours. Thayer David I have a rude thought every three seconds! Lee Ryan Habit is the nursery of errors. Victor Hugo

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and

error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having? George Ryan Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us. Lawrence Summers Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. Brad Pitt Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. Elbert Hubbard I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience. Tobey Maguire Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. Katherine Mansfield I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. Bill Veeck

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order

of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. Northrop Frye Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. Frank Knox Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist. John Legend Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. Don Marquis Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. Cecil Rhodes The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. Thomas Overbury Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to

lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world. Arthur Henderson One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. Jonathan Swift Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department. Tom Peters Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much. Norman Vincent Peale It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. Erma Bombeck It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks. David Gest

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was

not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected. Stockwell Day Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. Henry Miller Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn. James Montgomery I saw a stationery store move. Jay London The darker the character, the more interesting. Robert Carlyle A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. Earl Weaver

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer

needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. Edna St. Vincent Millay I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. Dean Koontz Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name. Dylan Thomas I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. Leigh Hunt These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels. Mickey Rivers Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. Stefan Zweig

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural

force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood. Roland Emmerich The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing. Paul Ince Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. Walter Lippmann Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it. Steve Burns It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. Benjamin Franklin I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death. John Harvey Kellogg And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. James Beattie

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are

below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing. Alain Prost It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. Sydney Madwed It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. Harold MacMillan The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. Michael Porter He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. John Ruskin

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor

did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time. Sam Houston I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base. Big Pun I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times. Elizabeth Taylor As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. Henry Van Dyke Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. Henry Ward Beecher I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. Jimmy Carl Black Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? Marguerite Young

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those

matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. Blaise Pascal I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price. Ruth Handler I don't think we'll win every election. Lee Scott I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime. William S. Hart Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. Andrew Weil I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers. Richard Serra It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. Margaret Anderson

It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in

this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country. Joseph Hume The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got. George W. Bush Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. Barney Oliver It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. Adlai E. Stevenson Silence is a source of great strength. Lao Tzu A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. Tony Benn Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. Brandon Lee

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may

depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. James K. Polk Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. Plato Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. Lao Tzu Art must take reality by surprise. Francoise Sagan I know the world is hungry for good ministry. James Green Somerville He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. William Tecumseh Sherman Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. Audrey Hepburn

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just

the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth. James Green Somerville We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad. Sam Brownback The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete. Rudolf Diesel Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is a great institution. Elizabeth Taylor Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking. Robert Hass

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my

camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light. Galen Rowell We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert Hamerton To change what you get, you must change who you are. Vernon Howard I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room. Asa Gray Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure. Kenneth Lay The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. Thomas Wolfe

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former

girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that. Tobey Maguire I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition. Mark Rydell We are never like angels till our passion dies. John Denham But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle. John Deacon The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. Doug Larson And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. Matthew Prior It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long. Friedrich Schiller

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have

always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy. Winston Graham Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. David Lee Roth I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at. Nicholas Brendon Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. John Adams What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office. Betty Hill It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. Eric Hoffer

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our

view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. David Bohm Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. Baruch Spinoza Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. David Sarnoff Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. Marlene Dietrich Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis de Sade

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an

important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level. Sue Kelly The United States transportation system is the envy of the world. Jerry Costello We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future. Boris Trajkovski Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. Ellen Glasgow What we wish, that we readily believe. Demosthenes The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. Barbara Walters The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that

has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best. Leo Kottke A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert A man with God is always in the majority. John Knox We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress. Joseph Brant In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. Christian Nestell Bovee I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Golda Meir No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band. Ann Wilson

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to

say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water. Susan George It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. Claes Oldenburg A fool must now and then be right, by chance. William Cowper Politeness is the poison of collaboration. Edwin Land The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. Alexander Pope My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time. Michael Clarke Duncan

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will

not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. Nhat Hanh I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that. Roma Downey I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. Rick Moody Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear. Bryant H. McGill But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film. Terri Windling

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the

traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service. Markus Wolf Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. Julia Roberts All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. George Eliot There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. Denis Waitley No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. Kin Hubbard The lucky person passes for a genius. Euripides I've always found ways to bend the rules. Michael Shanks

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of

the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to. Jerry Lawler I never saw the play, although I heard it was good. Joseph Force Crater So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle. Dean Stockwell Certainly, we need to support the communities around the country, and we do. Jim Walsh I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. Dennis Quaid Old age is the verdict of life. Amelia Barr I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh. Hanoi Hannah

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early

age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it. Matthew Perry One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. Randall Jarrell You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills. John Barrow I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director. Kristin Davis Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars. Roy Orbison If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. Graham Nash This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. Ugo Betti

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we

were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country. John Spratt Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? Laurence J. Peter The surest plan to make a man is, think him so. James Russell Lowell I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political. Suzanne Vega The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding

economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life. Bob Ehrlich The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. Vernor Vinge Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. Virgil Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. Deepak Chopra For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times. Jack Osbourne Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light. Ellis Peters Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. Fyodor Dostoevsky

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on

a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling. Rick Boucher One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky. Tom Wilkinson Jesus is just a word I use to swear with. Richard Harris The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms. Andrew Weil My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya. Joel Madden There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands. Jim Capaldi Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. Mark Twain

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the

press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. Henry A. Wallace Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. Stendhal Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Nicolaus Copernicus There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language. Henri Bergson I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball. Penny Marshall There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain. Suzanne Farrell

I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous,

but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter. Duane G. Carey I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible. Paul Martin The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. Jean de la Bruyere We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion. Tony Wilson Politics is the art of the next best. Otto von Bismarck In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God. Ravi Shankar

I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered

and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all. Colin Farrell The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. Jean Rostand For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. Michael Douglas Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. Herbert V. Prochnow I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them. Graeme Murphy

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make

sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future. Bob Riley Rich folks always talk hard times. Lillian Smith We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. Ernest Shackleton Most stuff you can do standing on your head. Tom Wilkinson It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear. Henry Carter Stuart What is true belongs to me! Lucius Annaeus Seneca I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming! Lydia Lunch

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine

thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution. Barbara Hepworth God is definitely out of the closet. Marianne Williamson War is the province of danger. Carl von Clausewitz The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit. Earl Weaver I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film. David Prowse By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. Robert Vaughn I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. Virginia Woolf

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire

to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be. John Ensign A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us. George Vancouver I have a love-hate relationship with performing. Sarah Brightman The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. John Frusciante No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. Winston Churchill Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. Anthony de Mello Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. Vladimir Putin

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God

is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. Leslie Stephen Nothing in fine print is ever good news. Andy Rooney But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match. Tim LaHaye It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. Groucho Marx Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air. Friedrich Schiller We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop Time will take your money, but money won't buy time. James Taylor

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those

are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. Jonathan Coe It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent. Natalie Merchant There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. Epicurus Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. Dalai Lama When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything. Anita Hill Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America. Chris Cannon Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work

together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations. Susan Collins I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase. Paul Putner A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. Ezra Stiles Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. George W. Bush I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day. Susan Anton The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. Simone Veil Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen. Keith Olbermann

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a

lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me. Donald Sutherland Politics is show business for ugly people. Paul Begala Publish and be dammed. Duke of Wellington He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. George Herbert All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand. Boyle Roche There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend. Mike Gordon

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons,

to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. Ronald Reagan Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends. George Will I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground. Dave Navarro And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston. Betty Hill Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Bysshe Shelley Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. Ernie Banks To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. Isaac Asimov

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the

people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers. Harold H. Greene Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history. Fred Willard I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. Kurt Cobain Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. Helen Hunt Jackson I shall have more to say when I am dead. Edwin Arlington Robinson The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Henry Ward Beecher One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. Ed Smith

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the

climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word. F. L. Lucas Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same. John Wozniak Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Lawrence Durrell Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. Peter Ustinov Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. Edmund Waller Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. e. e. cummings

I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows,

because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented. Mick Taylor There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. Jim Rohn You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. Germaine Greer Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. Archer John Porter Martin Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years. George Crumb I'm a workaholic. Tim Roth Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking

to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket. Bill Cartwright Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. Malcolm Arnold I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy. Bill Griffith Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more. Bob Nelson My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. Ovid I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff. Gene Simmons I'm just a newsboy who met a President. David Powers

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which

is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Richard Adams Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. William C. Bryant Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Disraeli Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica. Thomas Beecham One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes. Donna Mills At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other. Imran Khan Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. John Maynard Keynes

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of

thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. Virginia Woolf When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon. Marc Maron I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played. Mick Taylor In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. Anne Baxter Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. Elizabeth Kenny Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! Robert Burns We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. Charles Stanley

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare

that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability. Ken Livingstone Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. George Edward Moore So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. Dorothea Brande It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine. John B. S. Haldane He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. Virgil I'm not getting frustrated... we all knew from the start that this would be a long process. Dick Spring We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity. Justin Sane

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