you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. Warren Spahn A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. Henri Poincare By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card. Jacqueline McKenzie It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Louisa May Alcott God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. Benjamin Franklin I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln

reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. Oscar Hammerstein II Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us. Christopher Bond But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security. Asa Hutchinson I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. James Joyce That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency. Mary McAleese I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself. Dan...

women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face. Dick Durbin Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. Henry S. Haskins Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. George Steiner I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world. Brian Schweitzer Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. George A. Sheehan Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The busy have no time for tears. Lord Byron

complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network. Bill Bixby We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem. Dave Obey There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion. John McDonald I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big. Imran Khan A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public. Franklin Knight Lane Silence is argument carried out by other means. Che Guevara

nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved. Len Dawson I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback. Kevin J. Anderson There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly. Bill Forsyth A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. Lyndon B. Johnson All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. Thomas Carlyle What you get is a living, what you give is a life. Lillian Gish For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. George Orwell

find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes. Emily Mortimer We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. Irving Babbitt Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. John Tyler The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Winston Churchill The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. Allan Bloom Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed. Jim Caviezel Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow. John Fletcher

all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long. Bobby Vinton And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! Barbara Bush I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy? Owen Hart There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. Simon Travaglia Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up. Roger B. Chaffee Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. Lawrence Summers

yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. Phillips Brooks Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain! Angie Stone The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is. James Daly I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show. Tommy Tune Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. Theodor Adorno From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet. Jones Very Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do. Josh Billings

problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. John Holt What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? George Orwell We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. Walter Lippmann All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us. Yahoo Serious I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. Orson Welles Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. Laurell K. Hamilton Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Aesop

- is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre! Robert Palmer To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line. Nelson A. Miles Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that. Beau Bridges I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living. Jim Cramer Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. Ed Markey Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. Miguel de Unamuno Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that final...

so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be? Tony Goldwyn Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. Peter Lewis Allen But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals. Randy West Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. Elizabeth Moon I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. Jack Kevorkian I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic. Billy Sherwood I've traveled to ...

is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity. Susan Dey Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built. Allen Weinstein The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization. Otto Rank 'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force. Algernon Sidney Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. Laurence Sterne Achievement brings its own anticlimax. Maya Angelou Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their childr...

world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public. Norm Coleman When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean. Catherine Zeta-Jones A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones. William Kent I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists. Giuseppe Zangara Pain is temporary, film is forever. Michael J. Fox Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. Don Henley But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. Andrew Marvell

did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue. Peter Ackroyd New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines. Federico Garcia Lorca I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months. Graham Nelson Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Viktor E. Frankl There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy. Jonathan Klein My best friend and I love to make fish faces. Beverley Mitchell I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots. Neil Cavuto

national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues. Peter Singer It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies. Maggie Smith Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change. Mary McAleese I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. Teena Marie The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted. Publilius Syrus Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? Alan King Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. Ken Salazar