Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

George Bernard Shaw

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

Barry Goldwater

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Denis Leary

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

Julie Burchill

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Lily Tomlin

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Fulton J. Sheen

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

Sam Raimi

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

Lucinda Williams

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure

Thomas Jefferson

My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch, message

Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

Harold Brodkey

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

Christina Aguilera