Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
Bill Shuster
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination
Mark Twain
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
Cecil B. De Mille
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Friedrich Schiller
Creation is a drug I can't do without.
I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
Kevin Bacon
(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
Jodi Picoult
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
Alice Duer Miller
I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
Gabriel Basso
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.
Dennis Miller
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers
Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow.
Emily Miller
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.
Heston Blumenthal
I learned why they're called wonder drugs -- you wonder what they'll do to you.
Harlan Miller
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Mahatma Gandhi
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
Kurt Vonnegut
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Doug Coupland
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
Peter O'Toole
It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.
J. R. Miller
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
Christopher Walken
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
John Homer Miller
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.
Jane Austen
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John R. Miller
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
Chuck Jones
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
Johnny Miller
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Rebecca West
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale
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