The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

Alexander Graham Bell, The Mecha

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Billy Joel

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Do you remember his science project, Harry Sue, on the trajectory of spitballs? I tell you, that modest little display taught our students more about physics than I could accomplish in a weeklong unit at the middle school

Sue Stauffacher

Nothing is so self-sabotaging as having your actions not reflect your goals. Your life is always just waiting for permission to go where you want it to go... to be shaped how you want it to be shaped.

Steve Maraboli

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

George Herbert

Don't fall in love with someone who says the right things, fall in love with someone who does the right things.

Robert Tew

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

Angelina Grimke

What a slut time is. She screws everybody.

John Green

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

K. D. Lang

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck