Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. They are deprived of their independence. Democratic politicians rarely feel they can afford the luxury of telling the whole truth to the people. And since not telling it, though prudent, is uncomfortable, they find it easier if they themselves do not have to hear too often too much of the sour truth. The men under them who report and collect the news come to realize in their turn that it is safer to be wrong before it has become fashionable to be right.
Walter Lippmann
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
Richard Branson
Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Angela Carter
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
Cliff Shaw
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson Mandela
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
Charlize Theron
It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.
Terry Pratchett
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
Tyra Banks
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.
Ashley Tisdale
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas MacArthur
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.
Shane Warne
Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.
Mark Hoppus
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.
Elwood
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.
Jonathan Potter
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley
And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
Ridley Scott
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]
Virginia Woolf
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings
It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.
Christopher Lambert
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise Pascal
You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
Harry Browne
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
Steve Jobs
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Bill Watterson
I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
Bo Jackson
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Tennyson
We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.
Geraldine Ferraro
We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
Orson Scott Card
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
Kurt Vonnegut
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black
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