Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock &amp roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Thomas Mann

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.

Portia de Rossi

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Laurence Sterne

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Alvin Toffler

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

Hugh Jackman

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

Chuck Jones

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Goldsmith

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

George Bernard Shaw

Just because history is written by the victor does not necessarily mean that it is false. Therefore, revisionist history should always be suspect. Better still, all history should be suspect.

Colonel Brian D. Perry Sr., Susp

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Jesse Ventura

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

Richard Simmons