Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Julia Sweeney

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

Danica Patrick

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Karl Rove

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Count Basie

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.

Walter Raleigh

Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an.

Jim Al-Khalili

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

H.P. Lovecraft

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Ambrose Bierce

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

Terry Pratchett

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Henry Fielding