Here closed in death th' attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face.

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

Mel Brooks, "Newsweek", February

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Federico Fellini

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Sir Philip Sidney

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

Theodore Roosevelt

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Martin Mull

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

St. Jerome

Do you not see, first, that

Auberon Herbert

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

Elbert Hubbard

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

Gordon Gould

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me.

Anatole France

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Mark Zuckerberg