I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

Groucho Marx

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

Rory McIlroy

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

John Dos Passos, The Prospect Be

If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I've never heard of it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Rest in peace. The Mistake shall not be repeated.

Cenotoph

I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke 16:3

Bible

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Hilton Kramer

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

Jon Meacham

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

John Legend

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Hugh Walpole