I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Eric Hoffer

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Klaus Kinski

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Alexander Pope

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Julie Burchill

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Everett Dirksen

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Henry Miller

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

General Peyton C. March

Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else.

Chuck Palahniuk

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

...[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.

Jan Struther

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Kurt Vonnegut