We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Imagination comes of not having things.

LeRoy Neiman

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

Mahatma Gandhi

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Jim Bishop

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

Michael Jordan

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

Carl Levin

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

David Shakarian

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Norman Mailer

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Dom

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

Jude Morgan

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Mick Jagger

The only thing houseflies fear more than the Venus fly trap isthe hanging plant.

Steven Wright

At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.

Neil Gaiman