What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Alice Sebold

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

David Friedman

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Omar Bongo

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

J.K. Rowling

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Wallace Stevens

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

William Hague

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Mos Def

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

Ernst Fischer

We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Robert Toombs

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive

Ralph Waldo Emerson