Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Peter Abelard

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Mark Twain

Rather be dead than cool.

Kurt Cobain

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our white mythology. Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

Ihab Hassan

My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

John Green

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Paulo Coelho

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

Peter Farrelly

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Condoleezza Rice

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Janis Ian

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

Elizabeth Janeway

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Thomas Carlyle