Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

John Lennon

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Northrop Frye

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Madonna

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Thomas Carlyle

Which of the Himalayas is the shortest?

Steven Wright

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Socrates

Science is what scientists do.

Dennis Flanagan

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Charles Horton Cooley

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

William J. Clinton

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

Source Unknown

Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

Jim Boulton

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

Walter Russell