They are all so-called Christian nations, but... this superimposed religion... does not penetrate into the core of their souls. It has no relation to their daily experience... It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life.

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

Ice T

'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'

Voltaire

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Jean Arp

I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent

Mark Twain

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Calvin Trillin

Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.

Miranda Lambert

My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.

Woody Allen

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Tim Berners-Lee

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.

Blaise Pascal