Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

I was onstage and I was shocked; it hurt so badly. I thought: Why am I doing this? Why do I sing about needing to get better so she'll come back? That's a real problem I have. I don't need to get better - I need to find someone who likes me the way I am, someone who finds Chris desirable.

Chris Carrabba

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

Charles Edward Montague

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Flip Wilson

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

Greg Louganis

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage.

Oscar Wilde

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

Masiela Lusha

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Thomas Szasz

is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Sir William Temple

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer