Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
Mstislav Rostropovich
A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
It is those of us who have been broken that become experts at mending.
Steve Maraboli
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
Stefanie Powers
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How time files when you's doin' all the talking.
Harvey Fierstein
Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.
Novak Djokovic
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
Maynard James Keenan
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Norman Cousins
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
Dan Rather
How can we expect somebody else to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves?
George Bernard Shaw
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
Julie Andrews
Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.
She was so fat that she has her own postal code.
Rodney Dangerfield
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Frank Langella
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu
Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
George Eliot
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
Joanna Southcott
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
A full belly makes a dull brain
Benjamin Franklin
I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
Sarah Ferguson
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
Aldous Huxley
Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
Reeve Carney
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
As of 1992, they'll be called European Economic Community fries.
Steven Wright
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