At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Ferdinand De Saussure

Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.

Michael McCaul

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory -- to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

Walter Lippmann

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

I shall assume that your silence gives consent

Plato

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

J. PetitSenn

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

Colin Kaepernick

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

Hal Sparks

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Benjamin Franklin

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

Jack McDevitt