We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Steven Wright

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Vera Brittain

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Travel, trouble, music, art, A kiss, a frock, a rhyme - I never said they feed my heart, But still they pass my time.

Dorothy Parker, Faute de Mieux

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Oscar Wilde

Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gary Gulbranson

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Antonin Artaud

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

Ayelet Waldman

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

Dominic Monaghan