A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate, who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

Edwin Moses

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Stefanie Powers

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

Stephen Hawking

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Jim Harrison

Music is a safe kind of high.

Jimi Hendrix

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

John Irving

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Marie Chapian

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Scipio Africanus

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Susan Sontag