not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. Cher Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year. Arlen Specter There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play. John Bonham I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers. Victoria Pratt Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional? Charles Eames Beauty and folly are old c...

were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. Baltasar Gracian So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules. Harry Reid We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. Mary Wesley When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. Michael Badnarik All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. Evelyn Underhill Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions ...

new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released. Mick Taylor All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. Rudolf Steiner Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. James D. Watson I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days. Otis Blackwell Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made. Andy Goldsworthy Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals. ...

disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. Quentin Crisp Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. Ulysses S. Grant My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. Mary Wesley These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. William Henry Ashley His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing? Matthew Shipp I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff. Drea De Matteo The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and...

The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. Jacob Bronowski There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. Anna Sewell Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. Ed Smith We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big. Adam Sandler There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance. Rachel Griffiths Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now. Earl Monroe Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch o...

possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Henry Adams The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. Joe Lieberman To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. William Odom No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors. Douglas Hurd More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. Jon Stewart Dream the impossible because dreams do come true. Elijah Wood Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass ...

it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government. Alphonso Jackson Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. Gene Mauch They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. Joshua Sylvester So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove. Susan Estrich If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you. Tom Hicks The more I see the less I know for sure. John Lennon The day my son was born my lif...

endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. Otto Dix When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. John Moody As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. John Stuart Mill The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. P. G. Wodehouse Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. Bryant H. McGi...

not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting. Ron Reagan As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other. Nick Clooney The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security. Dick Cheney As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. Jean-Marie Le Pen You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old. Sophia Loren When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes. Barbara Sher Being defeated is often a temporary conditi...

heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. Mother Teresa If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold. Jeffrey Sachs That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. Michael Ondaatje If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available. Seth Lloyd No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy. Nick Clooney But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which t...

if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara. Phil Ochs You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though. Terry Pratchett You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that. Nick Rhodes Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off. Howard Stringer Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. Luigi Pirandello The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers o...

think that any time you're involved in something that has such a long-lasting appeal, you feel very blessed by that. Angela Cartwright If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court? Anne Hutchinson Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing. Ann Wilson Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! John Piper The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock My first character was Mr. Toad. Bill Griffith There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is...

and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. Henry Walter Bates The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. Naguib Mahfouz Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding. Charles Vest The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. Nicolas Chamfort I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up. Lenny Bruce Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. Robert Browning ...

somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him! Jeremy London All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy. John Dillinger Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. Denis Diderot Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts. Brad Henry I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. Connie Willis I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. H. L. Mencken The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years. Brian Clough I spe...

have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else. Morton Hunt In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school. Gaylord Nelson My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. Eric Allin Cornell If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance. Sean Combs It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little ...