- “My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.” – Spike Milligan

- “My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.” – Jay London

- “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres

- “My inner child is not wounded.” – Shannen Doherty

- “My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.” – Mike Myers

- “Never fight an inanimate object.” – P. J. O’Rourke

- “Never floss with a stranger.” – Joan Rivers

- “Never have more children than you have car windows.” – Erma Bombeck

- “Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected.” – Robert Orben

- “Never wear anything that panics the cat.” – P. J. O’Rourke

- “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” – H. L. Mencken

- “O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.” – Saint Augustine

- “Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw

- “Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.” – Robert Orben

- “One man’s folly is another man’s wife.” – Helen Rowland

- “Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” – Laurence J. Peter

- “Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.” – Lewis Mumford

- “Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.” – Samuel Butler

- “Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.” – Chevy Chase

- “People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant.” – Ellen DeGeneres

- “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” – Marilyn Monroe

- “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

- “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou

- “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” – Maya Angelou

- “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” – Albert Einstein

- “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill

- “The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” – Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” – Winston Churchill

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” – Mark Twain

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” – C. S. Lewis

- “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.” – Benjamin Franklin

- “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi

- “Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

- “The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

- “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon

1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

- “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

- “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” – Fr. Jerome Cummings

- “Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew

- “Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.” – Jewish Saying

- “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubbard

- “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle

- “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

- “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” – Nigerian Proverb

- “A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” – Apocrypha

- “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” – Unknown

- “Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.” – Claude Mermet

- “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian (1647)

- “Friendship needs no words…” – Dag Hammarskjold

- “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay (1871)

- “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert

- “I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport.”
- “I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.”
- “I won’t quit skating until I am physically unable.”
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* Tony Hawk’s Official Twitter Profile

- “Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.” – X-Files

- “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti

- “Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.” – Unknown

- “A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” – The Talmud

- “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman

- “A dream has power to poison sleep.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

- “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement

- “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

- “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” – Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”

- “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” – Henri Amiel

- “There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.” – Stoddard King, Jr.

- “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.” – E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

- “Dreams digest the meals that are our days.” – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment

- “Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.” – The Angels’ Little Instruction Book, Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

- “One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.” – Evelyn Waugh

- “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” – Gail Godwin

- “Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.” – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence

- “Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.” – Vivian Mercer

- “Dreams are free, so free your dreams.” – Astrid Alauda

- “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

- “For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.” – Samuel Lover, Rory O’ More

- “I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I’m going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.”
- “I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.”
- “I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.”
- “I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.”
- “I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.”
- “I’ve never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.”

- “If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn’t happen with dogs. They’re different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.”

- “It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.”

- “It’s a character that I always found really likable. I’m fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.”

- “Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it’s my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.”

- “There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.”

- “We are now integrated into American society and I don’t like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it’s going to pass. It’s not like that anymore.”

- “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
- “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
- “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou

- “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou

- “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson

- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein

- “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan

- “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan

- “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

- “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

- “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

- “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

- “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare

- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis

- “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin

- “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy

- “Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.”
- “I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
- “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
- “Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.”
- “Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
- “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
- “Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”

- “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
- “A revolution is not a bed of roses.”
- “Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.”
- “How can we help President Obama?”
- “I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”
- “I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
- “I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
- “I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”

- “I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”

- “I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.”

- “I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”

- “I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.”

- “Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

- “More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.”

- “No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”

- “North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.”

- “The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.”

- “The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”

- “The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.”

- “They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”

- “Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.” – Rick Renzi

- “Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.” – Phyllis Schlafly

- “By March ‘87 we’re down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we’re down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.” – Eddie Campbell

- “Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.” – Robert A. Heinlein

- “Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.” – Henry Morton Stanley

- “Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.” – Zhu Rongji

- “Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” – Thomas Carlyle

- “Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.” – Lyman Abbott

- “Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.” – Joshua Chamberlain

- “For better or worse, I’ve always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I’m fabulous!” – Michael Musto

- “For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn’t rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.” – Juan Cole

- “For me the march was a labor – a labor of love – but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn’t standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.” – Andre Braugher

- “For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.” – Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

- “From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.” – Scott Hamilton

- “Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.” – Christian Lous Lange

- “Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.” – John Hannah

- “Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.” – Billy Joel

- “I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.” – James Herriot

- “I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.” – George Armstrong Custer

- “And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.”
- “And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily think that I would be able to do.”
- “And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.”
- “At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.”

- “At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.”

- “Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.”

- “Hey, I’m a girl, and we like to play dress-up.”

- “I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.”

- “I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.”

- “I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”

- “I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don’t look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don’t think of them as like Charlize Theron films.”

- “I guess there are very few actors that I’ve worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you’ll have that chance and, if we didn’t do Italian Job together, there wouldn’t be another one that could be right.”

- “I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.”

- “I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.”

- “I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it’s maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.”

- “I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.”

- “I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
Charlize Theron

- “I mean, I’m new but I’ve always been very interested in film making process and I’ve been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested – that the producer part of me was natural.”

- “I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.”

- “I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.”

- “A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It’s a short letter – all she said was, “Hey, since it’s harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.” I was like, «Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!»”
- “A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.”
- “Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming Hairsray. It’s so weird because I grew up watching her.”
- “Being known for musicals is a great thing.”
- “From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.”
- “Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.”
- “High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.”
- “Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I’m gay, then I think I’ll be fine. I can handle it.”

- “I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we’ve been talking, I think that’s really fun.”

- “I grew up being into sports and I wasn’t trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I’m the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it’s always, «OK, one more take for Zac.»”

- “I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.”

- “I think if you’re fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk… why do that? I don’t understand how some people would want fame so bad that they’d go out and get negative attention to earn it.”

- “I think it’s fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.”

- “I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.”

- “I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don’t see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.”

- “I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.”

- “I’ll never try to put on a fake image. I’m just Zac.”

- “I’m a guy, but I’m not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I’m watching a movie, I’ll sometimes shed a tear, especially ‘Moulin Rouge’.”

- “I’m very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog – It’s the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!”

- “I’ve been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!”

1. “Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach

2. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin

3. “Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.” – G. Moore

4. “Came but for friendship, and took away love.” – Thomas Moore

5. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” – Leo Buscaglia

6. “If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: «Because it was he; because it was me.»” – Montaigne

7. “I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.” – Kyle Schmidt

8. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford

9. “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” – Henry Ward Beecher

10. “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore

- “I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.” – Duffy Daugherty

- “On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” – Lou Holtz

- “If hockey fights were fake, you would see me in more of them.” – Rod Gilbert

- “The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract.” – Spider Lockhart

- “Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.” – Shug Jordan

- “You can observe a lot just by watching.” – Yogi Berra

- “They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.” – Lou Holtz

- “We can’t win at home. We can’t win on the road. I just can’t figure out where else to play!” – Pat Williams

- “I started out with nothing and I still have most of it” – Unknown

- “The sun doesn’t shine on the same dog’s butt every day but we sure didn’t expect a total eclipse.” – Steve Sloan

- “I’d run over my mother to win the Super Bowl.” – Russ Grimm

- “They didn’t let me out, they just gave me a day pass.”

- “Anger is merely depression without enthusiasm.”

- “When God made man, she was only joking.”

- “I don’t drink; it dulls the drugs.”

- “God must love stupid people- he made so many!”

- “I like children. Properly cooked.”

- “Mirrors can’t talk. And lucky for you they can’t laugh.”

- “I wish I could kill the sexiest person alive but suicide is a crime!”

- “Adults are just kids with money.”

- “TGIF- Thank God I’m female.”

- “Someday your prince will come. Mine took a wrong turn and is too stubborn to ask for directions.”

- “Keep honking! I’m reloading!”

- “Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.”

- “Do unto others before they do unto you.”

- “Nothing is illegal until you get caught.”

- “Be nice to your kids, they’ll chose your nursing home.”

- “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.”

- “If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”

- “When I want your opinion, I’ll beat it out of you.”

- “Men are idiots and I married their king.”

- “You can pick your nose and pick your friends but you can’t wipe your friends on the couch.”

- “Behind every good man, there is a good woman. And behind every good woman, there’s another man looking at her butt.”

- “I see dumb people.”

- “Follow your dreams… except the one when you’re at school in your underwear.”

- “If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.”

- “Behind every successful man, there is a surprised woman.”

- “The more I know about men, the more I admire dogs.”

- “They keep saying the right person will come along; I think a truck hit mine.”

- “Death is life’s way of telling you you’re fired.”

- “If it weren’t for people like you, nobody else would have an above average IQ.”

- “Who died and made you Darth Vader?”

- “Too many freaks, not enough circus’s!”

- “Some people are only alive because it’s illegal to kill.”

- “I took an IQ test and the results were negative.”

- “I may be fat, but you’re ugly – I can lose weight!”

- “I’m not littering…. I’m donating to the earth.”

- “If you don’t like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk.”

- “DARE to keep cops off doughnuts.”

- “Your child may be an honor student, but you’re still an idiot.”

- “Doctors say I have a multiple personality, but we don’t agree with that.”

- “Don’t judge a book by its movie.”

- “Getting on your feet requires getting off your butt.”

- “My child sold your HONOR STUDENT the answers to the test.”

- “If you have something to say, raise your hand. Then place it over your mouth.”

- “Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear.”

- “I’m the kind of person my parents want me to stay away from.”

- “Boys will be boys … so will a lot of middle aged men.”

- “Why do people say “no offense” when they’re about to offend someone?”

- “If Harry Potter’s so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage lad shouldn’t need a broomstick to cling onto.” – Frankie Boyle

- “Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who’ll think he’s Tiger Woods.” – Frankie Boyle

- “A vasectomy means never having to say you’re sorry.” – Unknown

- “It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job: it’s a depression when you lose yours.” – Harry S. Truman

- “Scientists say because of global warming they expect the world’s oceans to rise four and a half feet. The scientists say this can mean only one thing – Gary Coleman is going to drown.” – Conan O’Brien

- “A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
- “A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?”
- “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”
- “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
- “All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
- “Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”

- “Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.”

- “But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”

- “Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”

- “Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

- “Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”

- “Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.”

- “Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”

- “Facts are stubborn things.”

- “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

- “Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

- “Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.”

- “Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”

- “Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”

- “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”

- “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” – Marianne Williamson

- “Remember to light the candle of joy daily and all the gloom will disappear from your life.” – Djwhal Khul

- “You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.” – Buffy Sainte-Marie

- “Joy is untouched by circumstance.” – Unknown

- “In thy presence is fullness of joy.” – Psalms 16:11

- “Joy is the echo of God’s life in us.” – Abbot Coumba Marmion

- “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Guatama Buddha

- “What I know for sure is that you feel real JOY in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.” – Oprah

- “Joy springs from within; no one makes you joyous; you choose joyfulness.” – Unknown

- “Thou has made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.” – Acts 2:28

- “True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.” – Paul Pearsall

- “Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.” – Phil Jackson

- “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

- “Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.” – Oprah

- “Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.” – Sathya Sai Baba

- “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

- “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” – Richard Wagner

- “Joy is the highest expression of love.” – Abraham-Hicks

- “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa

- “Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” – Swedish proverb

- “Even when I’m not directing, that doesn’t stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.”
- “Fashion is so over the top.”
- “I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.”
- “I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.”
- “I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.”
- “I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.”
- “I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.”
- “I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.”

- “I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.”

- “I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.”

- “I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.”

- “I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.”

- “I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.”

- “I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people’s expectations of me as a comic actor.”

- “I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.”

- “I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.”

- “I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.”

- “If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.”

- “It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.”

- “Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.”

- “Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.” – Bill Maher

- “A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.” – Carrie Snow

- “You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.” – Cindy Crawford

- “Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.” – Laurence J. Peter

- “The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.” – Unknown

- “A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.” – Arnold Haultain

- “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton

- “Women are always beautiful.” – Ville Valo

- “The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.” – Ellery Queen

- “Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.” – Mae West

- “Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.” – Nicole Hollander

- “Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.” – Unknown

- “Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.” – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

- “A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.” – Chauncey Mitchell Depew

- “The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.” – Elizabeth Metcalf

- “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.” – Madeleine K. Albright

- “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde

- “There’s something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.” – Harold Robbins

- “When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute.” – Unknown

- “Men get laid, but women get screwed.” – Quentin Crisp

- “The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.” – Germaine Greer

- “Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.” – Ovid

- “Howiver, I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ‘em to match the men.” – George Eliot, “The Harvest Supper”, Adam Bede

- “Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn’t want to own one.” – W.C. Fields

- “Women really do rule the world. They just haven’t figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we’re all in big big trouble.” – Doctor Leon

- “If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris

- “There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.” – Alexandre Dumas

- “Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.” – Robert Brault

- “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

- “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Unknown

- “Anger is one letter short of danger.” – Unknown

- “Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

- “People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” – Will Rogers

- “Never write a letter while you are angry.” – Chinese Proverb

- “Get mad, then get over it.” – Colin Powell

- “The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” – Bede Jarrett

- “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966

- “In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” – Mark Twain

- “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” – Malachy McCourt

- “Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.” – Robert Brault

- “If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” – Korean Proverb

- “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” – Chinese Proverb

- “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” – Albert Einstein

- “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” – George Jean Nathan

- “Anger is short-lived madness.” – Horace

- “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot

- “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” – Lyman Abbott

- “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” – Robert G. Ingersoll

- “Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.” – Unknown

- “Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.” – Sweetpea Tyler

- “Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

- “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” – James Fallows

- “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg

- “Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.” – Benjamin Franklin

- “Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.” – Lemony Snicket

- “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.” – Unknown

- “Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?” – Jareb Teague

- “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha

- “Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.” – Seneca

- “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” – Louis L’Armour

- “Never strike your wife – even with a flower.” – Hindu Proverb

- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce

- “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894

- “Anger is a bad counselor.” – French Proverb

- “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.” – Neil Kinnock

- “The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.” – Wilson Mizner

- “To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” – William H. Walton

- “The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff

- “When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.” – Elbert Hubbard

- “Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” – Marcus Antonius

- “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” – Manolo Blahnik

- “Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.” – James Earl Jones

- “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney

- “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm

- “All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.” – Eddie Campbell

- “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung

- “Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” – Orlando Bloom

- “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill

- “And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” – Octavia Butler

- “And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.” – Peter Shaffer

- “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” – Godfried Danneels

- “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” – Joan D. Vinge

- “But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.” – Fisher Stevens

- “But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.” – Iris Murdoch

- “But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.” – Shelley Duvall

- “But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” – Elizabeth Moon

- “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” – Octavia Butler

- “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke

- “Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” – Joseph Barbera

- “Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.” – Erika Slezak

- “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen

- “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ” – Jean Houston

- “Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.” – Unknown

- “Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” – Henry Ward Beecher

- “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”, Saturday Night Live

- “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Unknown

- “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle

- “What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!” – Agnes Repplier

- “So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.” – Gordon W. Allport

- “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge

- “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish Proverb

- “When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” – Alan Alda

- “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut

- “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb

- “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart

- “A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.” – Puzant Kevork Thomajan

- “There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” – Françoise Sagan

- “I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, «Ain’t that the truth.»” – Quincy Jones

- “Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” – Henri Bergson

- “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.” – Max Eastman

- “A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” – Raymond Hitchcock

- “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” – Kurt Vonnegut

- “Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.” – Anna Fellows Johnston

- “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4

- “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” – Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

- “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “Whoever said “laughter is the best medicine” never had gonorrhea.” – Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, “Robbed a Stoner Blind”, original airdate 16 November 2006

- “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” – Ken Kesey

- “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman

- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately

- “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957

- “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown

- “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder

- “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault

- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard

- “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh

- “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown

- “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux

- “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

- “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown

- “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown

- “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson

- “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman

- “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings

- “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon

- “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy

- “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault

- “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson

- “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson

- “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau

- “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce

- “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd

- “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather

- “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman

- “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner

- “Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”
- “I’d rather let the music speak for itself.”
- “I’m not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.”
- “It’s probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.”
- “People think our music’s very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it’s just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.”
- “Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.”
- “The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.”

- “We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”

- “It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – William Somerset Maugham

- “It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.” – John J. Watson

- “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – John Calvin Coolidge

- “The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

- “Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.” – James Corbett

- “Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” – Anthony (Tony) Robbins

- “A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough.” – Ronald Reagan

- “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal

- “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

- “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

- “The more you prepare, the luckier you appear.” – Terry Josephson

- “If-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.” – Unknown

- “Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.” – Dr. A. B. Meldrum

- “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” – Robert Hughes

- “Am I a romantic? I’ve seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I’m a romantic.”
- “Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
- “As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
- “France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.”

- “How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”

- “I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”

- “I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”

- “I guess I’m attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”

- “I may have a feather duster down my pants.”

- “I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”

- “I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.”

- “I think everybody’s nuts.”

- “I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”

- “I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”

- “I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”

- “I’m not sure I’m adult yet.”

- “I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”

- “If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”

- “If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”

- “It’s all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It’s like you’ve met your reason to live.”

- “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

- “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

- “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso

- “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

- “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” – William Faulkner

- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

- “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler

- “Painting is silent poetry.” – Plutarch

- “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci

- “It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” – Kojiro Tomita

- “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell

- “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Schumann

- “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” – Pablo Picasso

- “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse

- “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.” – Robert Brault

- “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

- “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

- “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

- “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

- “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand

- “All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker

- “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde

- “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

- “It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” – Henry Moore

- “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – André Gide

- “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” – Wynetka Ann Reynolds

- “But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.” – The New Yorker

- “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell

- “It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.” – Unknown

- “I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, «Mother, what was war?»” – Eve Merriam

- “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” – Albert Einstein

- “The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” – David Friedman

- “«There are no atheists in foxholes» isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.” – James Morrow

- “Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.” – Colonel Potter

- “All the arms we need are for hugging.” – Unknown

- “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” – Napoleon

- “A great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.” – German Proverb

- “The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.” – Arthur Koestler

- “Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” – Colman McCarthy

- “Draft beer, not people.” – Bob Dylan

- “The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

- “War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” – John F. Kennedy

- “What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.” – Unknown

- “Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people – and kill them.” – Pacifist Badge, 1978

- “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” – Ernest Hemingway

- “War makes thieves and peace hangs them.” – George Herbert

- “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” – Jeanette Rankin

- “You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.” – David Lloyd George

- “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.” – Carl Sandburg

- “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – José Narosky

- “We kind o’ thought Christ went agin war an’ pillage.” – James Russell Lowell

- “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
- “A jug fills drop by drop.”
- “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
- “All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
- “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”

- “Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”

- “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

- “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

- “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

- “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”

- “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”

- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

- “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

- “Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”

- “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

- “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”

- “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

- “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”

- “He is able who thinks he is able.”

- “He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”

- “A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.” – Orlando Bloom

- “A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgi

- “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce

- “A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” – James Joyce

- “A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.” – Robert Morgan

- “Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.” – George G. Simpson

- “And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.” – Adam Weishaupt

- “And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.” – Juan Goytisolo

- “As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.” – Harry Johnston

- “As the Nation’s primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.” – Judy Biggert

- “As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.” – Ivan Pavlov

- “Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.” – Arthur Keith

- “But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of – the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.” – J. L. Austin

- “But I’m an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.” – Karlheinz Stockhausen

- “But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.” – William Shatner

- “But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.” – Joseph Rotblat

- “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

- “Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man’s onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.” – Albert Pike

- “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug.” – Mark Twain

- “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

- “The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.” – Rogers Hornsby

- “The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.” – German Proverb

- “The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.” – Nellie Hershey Tullis

- “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” – George Will

- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

- “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” – Sarah Brown

- “The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.” – Thomas Holcroft

- “Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I’ve ever faced since I started writing.” – Nora Roberts

- “Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.” – Howard Dietz

- “I could tell you which writer’s rhythms I am imitating. It’s not exactly plagiarism, it’s falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.” – Charles Kuralt

- “I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.” – Will McDonough

- “Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.” – Guy Debord

- “If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.” – Charles Caleb Colton

- “If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner

- “Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.” – Zelda Fitzgerald

- “No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.” – Gilbert Gottfried

- “Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.” – George A. Moore

- “What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” – Dean Inge

- “When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner

- “Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.” – Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud

- “If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.” – Anil Ambani

- “Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.” – Sergey Brin

- “It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.” – George Bushism

- “The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.” – Vinton Cerf

- “They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person’s life. In other words, it’s evolving fast and faster.” – Vinton Cerf

- “Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.” – Vinton Cerf

- “The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.” – Vinton Cerf

- “I must confess that I’ve never trusted the Web. I’ve always seen it as a coward’s tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable “on notice”? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?” – Stephen Colbert

- “I think it’s a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I’m for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.” – Anderson Cooper

- “There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what’s happening in the nondigital world.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

- “The new information technology, Internet and e-mail, have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.” – Peter Drucker

- “Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.” – David Filo

- “We’re not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.” – David Filo

- “We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.” – David Filo

- “First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.” – David Filo

- “The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don’t cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.” – David Filo

- “The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” – Milton Friedman

- “Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.” – Bill Gates

- “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.” – Bill Gates

- “I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” – Bill Gates

- “The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.” – Bill Gates

- “Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.” – Bill Gates

- “We’re at the point now where the challenge isn’t how to communicate effectively with e-mail, it’s ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.” – Bill Gates

- “Some people develop a wish bone where their back bone should be.” – Unknown

- “Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat down the door.” – Unknown

- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce

- “Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.” – W. C. Fields

- “Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.” – Unknown

- “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” – Earl Nightingale

- “The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” – Arthur C. Clarke

- “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.” – Robert Frost

- “The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.” – Al Neuharth

- “The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that an optimist thinks this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.” – Unknown

- “There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

- “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.” – John Betjeman

- “Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.” – William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”

- “Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911

- “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.” – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

- “Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.” – Unknown

- “Childhood is a promise that is never kept.” – Ken Hill

- “Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.” – Katherine Anne Porter

- “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

- “When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.” – Sam Ewing

- “In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.” – Robert Brault

- “The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.” – Christopher Morley, To a Child

- “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” – Tom Stoppard

- “I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life’s decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.” – Lewis Carroll, “Solitude”

- “It is never too late to have a happy childhood.” – Tom Robbins

- “What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.” – Cynthia Ozick

- “The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.” – John Milton, Paradise Regained

- “Childhood is a short season.” – Helen Hayes

- “He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.” – Herbert Gold

- “Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.” – Unknown

- “The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.” – Ellen Glasgow

- “Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.” – Malcolm de Chazal

- “Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” – Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) Spanish novelist.

- “Have no friends not equal to yourself.” – Confucious (551 – 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.

- “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille (1738 – 1813) French poet.

- “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) US poet & essayist.

- “Keep your friendships in repair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.” – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British lexiographer.

- “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.” – Samuel Johnston

- “It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.” – Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680) French writer.

- “If it is abuse – why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) British dramatist.

- “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington (1732 – 1799) US Statesman.

- “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

- “I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.” – George Washington

- “Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’?” – Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish poet.

- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greek philosopher.

- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus

- “These are called the pious frauds of friendship.” – Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) British novelist.

- “Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” – Samuel Johnston (1709 – 1784) British lexicographer.

- “Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince.” – Samuel Johnston

- “I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars` worth when they go to a movie, and that they`re not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don`t care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think… ”
- “A mate of mine told me recently, `It`s the first time I`ve seen you work, Worthington.` I thought that was quite funny, but he was right. [Empire magazine, October 2006]”
- “A lot of these people were getting to where they didn’t need help anymore. You have to start all over again.”
- “People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.”
- “You help families focus on the future through their children.”

- “To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense… You have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.”

- “There has been much less work done in Sri Lanka because of the political problem. It may be a challenge for some donor countries to accept some exceptions amid restrictions on whom to work with.”

- “Our challenge is that we respond to stark events.”

Note: Sam Worthington is an American Hollywood actor. He is best known for his roles in Avatar (2009), Dirty Deeds (2002), Bootmen (2000)

- “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” – Plutarch

- “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

- “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James

- “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol

- “Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach

- “The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.” – William Penn

- “The middle course is the best.” – Cleobulus

- “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” – Thomas Huxley

- “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb

- “Silence does not always mark wisdom.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

- “No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca

- “Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.” – John Milton

- “By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.” – Menander

- “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt

- “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson

- “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Catherine the Great

- “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

- “One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.” – Alexander Chase

- “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” – Homer

- “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young

- “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius

- “Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.” – Adrienne Gusoff

- “An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie

- “Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed.” – Albert Einstein

- “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein

- “Men make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” – Unknown

- “You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty.” – Unknown

- “The four most important words in any marriage…«I’ll do the dishes.»” – Unknown

- “No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” – Unknown

- “Marriage is like jogging through a puddle of industrial strength rubber glue. You can work hard and make it through the struggles; however, you usually leave your bobby socks and sneakers behind along the way.” – Unknown

- “When a relationship goes flat, so does a couple of sets of car tires.” – Unknown

- “Men only have two faults….What they do, and what they say!” – Unknown

- “You can’t buy love on eBay.” – Unknown

- “If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?” – Bette Midler

- “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis

- “Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.” – Cathy Carlyle

- “Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.” – Cecilia Egan

- “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him.” – Cher

- “Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries.” – Cher

- “By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is infinite, undying -
Lady, make note of this: One of you is lying.” – Dorothy Parker

- “I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands.” – Dudley Moore

- “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck

- “Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.” – Fran Lebowitz

- “It is impossible to love and be wise.” – Francis Bacon

- “Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

- “Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” – Fulton J. Sheen

- “Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.” – George Carlin

- “Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.” – Glenn Beck

- “I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.” – Groucho Marx

- “To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.” – Helen Rowland

- “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.” – Henry Kissinger

- “When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.
And she never did.” – James Fineous McBride

- “Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.” – Jean Kerr

- “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford

- “It’s been so long since I made love,
I can’t even remember who gets tied up.” – Joan Rivers

- “Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.” – Joan Rivers

- “You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” – Jonathan Carroll

- “No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.” – Joyce Brothers

- “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” – Katharine Hepburn

- “True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.” – La Rochefoucauld

- “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.” – Lily Tomlin

- “The only people who make love all the time are liars.” – Louis Jordan

- “The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.” – Natalie Wood

- “Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.” – Oscar Wilde

- “Love is a grave mental disease.” – Plato

- “Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man that I want my children to spend their weekends with?” – Rita Rudner

- “Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate.” – Sandra J. Dykes

- “All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.” – Shelley Winters

- “I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.” – Steve Martin

- “A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.” – Thomas Hardy

- “Marriage is a great institution for those who like institutions.” – Tommy Dewar

- “Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” – W. Somerset Maugham

- “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” – Walt Disney

- “Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.” – Woody Allen

- “The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.” – Woody Allen

- “Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.” – Woody Allen

- “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale

- “Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.” – Carol Nelson

- “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith

- “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase

- “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” – Charles Dickens

- “Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year – and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.” – W.J. Cameron

- “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis

- “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!” – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

- “There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.” – W.J. Cameron

- “A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.” – Walter Scott

- “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

- “May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!” – Unknown

- “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens

- “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

- “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” – Washington Irving

- “Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.” – Kate L. Bosher

- “Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.” – Francis C. Farley

- “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis

- “For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.” – W.J. Ronald Tucker

- “Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.” – Carrie Latet

- “Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.” – Richard Lamm

- “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” – Hamilton Wright Mabie

- “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” – Unknown

- “Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself…” – Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976

- “From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.” – Katharine Whitehorn

- “In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look out for the wall!’” – Dave Barry, “Christmas Shopping: A Survivor’s Guide”

- “Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!” – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

- “I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: «Why, this is Christmas Day!» ” – David Grayson

- “A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.” – Eva Logue

- “Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.” – George Burns

- “If you cannot read this, please ask the flight attendant for assistance.” – United Airlines Flight Safety Brochure

- “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is ‘never try’.” – Homer Simpson

- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill

- “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

- “I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx

- “Boy George is all England needs – another queen who can’t dress.” – Joan Rivers

- “Is he just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?” – Freddie Mercury on Billy Idol

- “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” – Rita Mae Brown

- “If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight.” – George Globol

- “Everyting negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
- “I dont want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.”
- “I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”
- “I’m chasing perfection.”
- “My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.”
- “There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.”
- “These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.”

- “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” – Charles Eames

- “Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” – Brian Reed

- “There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.” – Massimo Vignelli

- “People ignore design that ignores people.” – Frank Chimero

- “I’ve always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy.” – Thomas Vasquez

- “Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.” – Joe Sparano

- “Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.” – Aaron Russell

- “The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.” – Marty Neumeier

- “Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit.” – Scott Stevenson

- “Design is where science and art break even.” – Robin Mathew

- “Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.” – Mieke Gerritzen

- “A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.” – Bruno Munari

- “A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
- “Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.”
- “Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
- “Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
- “Friends applaud, the comedy is over.”
- “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
- “Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.”
- “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

- “Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

- “Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.”

- “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.”

- “Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.”

- “Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”

- “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”

- “Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”

- “Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”

- “The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, «Thus far and no farther.»”

- “This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”

- “Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”

- “What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

- “A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”
- “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.”
- “I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.”
- “I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”
- “I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.”
- “I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.”

- “I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.”

- “I won’t eat anything green.”

- “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”

- “I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.”

- “I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.”

- “I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.”

- “If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!”

- “If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.”

- “If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.”

- “It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”

- “Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”

- “Rather be dead than cool.”

- “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

- “The worst crime is faking it.”

- “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
- “A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”
- “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
- “A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”
- “A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”

- “A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

- “A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”

- “Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”

- “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

- “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

- “All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”

- “All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”

- “All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

- “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

- “All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”

- “Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”

- “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”

- “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

- “And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

- “Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.”

- “I don’t think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.”
- “I’d like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I’ll do that before I’m thirty.”
- “I’m 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I’m playing right where I’m supposed to be. I’m comfortable with that, but in the same breath I’d do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I’d do it.”
- “I’m relaxed about my career. I’ve been making movies for over 20 years, so I’ve earned at least the right to relax.”
- “I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.”

- “I’ve made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I’ve mostly been successful.”

- “If I don’t die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.”

- “In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.”

- “In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn’t think I could pull that off. I’m a little short to be a basketball player!”

- “The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.”

- “The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don’t hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they’re in a good mood.”

- “You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don’t work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won’t work.”