I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

John Ruskin

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Sarah McLachlan

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Oakley Hall

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

Christina Aguilera

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Abigail Van Buren

And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

Terry Pratchett

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.

George Burns

The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.

Ellen G. White

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

Tracey Gold

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

George Orwell