Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

Source Unknown

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

Richard Donner

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

Billy Connolly

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Willie Mays

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

Gijs de Vries

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

David Hunt

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Isadora Duncan, My Life

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Stephen King

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Norman Mailer