opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. Hussein of Jordan Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. David Seabury I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids. Carrie Underwood Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way. Matthew Prior We need a hit, so here I go. Joe DiMaggio We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors. Pauline Hanson It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. Corazon Aquino

to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. David Amram I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. Shakira In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. Nong Duc Manh The desire to write grows with writing. Desiderius Erasmus Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Friedrich Schiller Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. Charles V Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. William Hazlitt

got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said. Mike Gordon More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. Leonard Bailey All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. Francis Thompson To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy. Lamar S. Smith Excessive literary production is a social offense. George Eliot I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. Clive Bell

of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity. Christopher Dawson I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. Arthur Rubinstein A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. Bill Walsh Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. Richard J. Needham You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. Max Lerner You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. Jean...

by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. Mao Zedong Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. Jared Diamond I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. George Eliot If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you. Robert Anthony Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. Howard Dean I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes. Jill Dando Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision. J...

for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. J. Michael Straczynski America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. David Brooks Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film. Yahoo Serious Writing is a solitary occupation. Bernard Cornwell But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war. Christopher Shays Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Boy George I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front. Edward Bennett Williams

day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out! Eric Carle When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body. Rachel Blanchard Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. Steve Prefontaine Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. Stephen Leacock I never liked making albums. Jim Sullivan Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. Jared Diamond

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. Eliot Ness You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. Jimi Hendrix I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience. Slick Rick Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. Brooks Robinson The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged. Major Owens Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Earl Warren

retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success. Napoleon Hill Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. Marcus Aurelius It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty. Dick Thornburgh A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. George Burns With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. Paul Eldridge A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy. Vivica A. Fox

will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Don Miguel Ruiz If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better. Jonathan Frakes Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. William Hazlitt There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. Penelope Lively I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now. Lesley Garrett Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true. Nigella Lawson When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis. Anna Kournikova

it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know? John Robinson I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that. Campbell Scott Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. Barbara Kruger Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen. Paul Samuelson I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. Carl Rakosi You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community. Alan Autry There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them. Larry Hagman

was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. Iris Chang Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. Evan Esar Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House. John F. Kennedy The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Jim Rohn The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. Mary Catherine Bateson An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. Francis Thompson

is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. John Henrik Clarke Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. Horace This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. Arthur C. Clarke But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with. Cynthia Weil Too much truth is uncouth. Franklin Pierce Adams An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. Thomas Fuller I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. Eddie Izzard

issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. Michael Badnarik People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. Kurt Vonnegut I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. Dean Koontz When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves. Eleonora Duse I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation. Billy Sherwood The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. William Gilbert One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. Robert Fortune

sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous. Andy Richter I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief. Nick Cave I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. Roy Orbison My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life. Terri Windling Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong. Terence We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by. John Denver The monster was the best friend I ever had. Boris Karloff