freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. Soren Kierkegaard I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful. Allan Sloan In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer. Frederick Sanger I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before. James Irwin To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande I know what kind of person he is so they can say whatever they want. Emmanuel Lewis Compassion is no substitute for justi...

nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. Mencius My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason. Will Smith Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease. Richard Serra There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.' Robert J. Flaherty A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. Robert Menzies If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing. Kathy Valentine Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent:...

machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! Henrik Ibsen Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. Swami Sivananda The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. Vaclav Havel Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings. Walter Lang I'm a little thirsty, can I go drink out of your toilet? ...

They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. Dave Mustaine Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure. Thomas Edward Brown New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning. Robert Asprin My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. John Adams The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. Mark Dayton It is hard to be an individual in Japan. Haruki Murakami Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the p...

I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me. George W. Bush I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can. Tara Reid Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. Paul Theroux We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. Horace They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in! Thayer David To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. Barry Humphries Every day, hundreds of thousands of men an...

all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible! Pearl White I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since. Leo Kottke It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order. Story Musgrave The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. James Whitcomb Riley The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. Joseph Brodsky I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares. Alexander Duff Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. ...

to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. Marilyn Ferguson All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream. Patti LaBelle I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit. Terry Fox Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. Arthur Rubinstein I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development. Alphonso Jackson One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. Franklin D. Roosevelt I...

This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is. Jon Stewart It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something. Brandon Boyd You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark. William Cavendish A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. Carl Andre Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. Steve Allen Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water. David Letterman It is in games th...

it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years. Brady Anderson Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life. Arnold Schwarzenegger After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. Hans Kung There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. Eugene Ionesco Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. Vanessa Mae Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. Jeremy Taylor Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse ...

training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights. Clara Hughes I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation. Lorin Maazel Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that. Wangari Maathai If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count. Mariah Carey I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures. Cindy Margolis I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as y...

plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. Asa Gray More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. Franklin D. Roosevelt The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens. Thomas Vilsack I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid. Rob Schneider The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. Karl Marx It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a...

this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me. Joseph Smith, Jr. I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. Franka Potente We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is. Oscar de la Renta If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being? Joy Page There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. Nicholas Sparks My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the cap...

with. You could always rely on him to be available for a short pass, allowing you time to clear a ball. He would never give the ball away. Richard Gough Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method. Henry M. Morris The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. David Riesman Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. Nagarjuna If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. John Kenneth Galbraith The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren'...

oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Joseph Stalin Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. Johannes Brahms There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether. Jim Palmer The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. Edward Jenner Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. Theodor Adorno Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions. Bo Bennett With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. Johnny Depp Your present circu...

switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. Nat Friedman We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices. Christine Gregoire Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. Susan Sontag Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. Horace Mann It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R. Tolkien Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. Christopher Dawson The first principle of a civilized state...