There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

Malcolm McDowell

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.

Charles Sawyer

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Jared Leto

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Mark Twain

I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.

Sung Hi Lee

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

Sally Kirkland

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Tony Visconti

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Lord Acton

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

Gary Bauer

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, quoted

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk

Michael Crichton, Speech, 2003