With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

A girl phoned me and said, Come on over there's nobody home, I went over nobody was home

Rodney Dangerfield

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

Yitzhak Rabin

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Jerry Saltz

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Lionel Trilling

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

Curt Schilling

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Thornton Wilder

When it's breezy, hit it easy.

Davis Love, Jr.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.

Kevin Mitnick

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Drew Barrymore

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

George Leigh Mallory