Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

Salman Khan

Study to be what you wish to seem.

John Bate

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Phyllis Diller

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Tony Benn

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Walter Gilbert

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Irving Babbitt

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

Allen West

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Carson McCullers

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerner

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Alan Lightman, Einstein

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

I have some anger issues.

Bryan Cranston