Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Terry Pratchett

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Al Gore

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

Lauryn Hill

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Irv Kupcinet

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Ville Valo

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

George Orwell

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Robert J. Mckain

Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.

Emile Gaboriau

Country music has always sort of been country music.

Miranda Lambert

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Plato