My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

Paula Deen

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

Source Unknown

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's Memoirs.

Will Rogers

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Walt Whitman

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

Offered a job as book critic for magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his opinion about William Wordsworth. Replying perhaps too quickly that Wordsworth had been a Romantic poet, he had been brusquely informed by Chambers that there was no place for him at the magazine. Bellow had often wondered, he told us, what he ought to have said. I suggested that he might have got the job if he'd replied that Wordsworth was a once-revolutionary poet who later became a conservative and was denounced by Browning and others as a turncoat. This seemed to Bellow to be probably right. More interesting was the related question: What if he'd that job?

Christopher Hitchens

Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

Source Unknown

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Kevin Costner

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

Kristin Scott Thomas

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

William Glasser