In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

We see societies establishing themselves, nations forming themselves, which in turn dominate over other nations or become subject to them. Empires rise and fall; laws, forms of government, one succeeding another; the arts, the sciences, are discovered and are cultivated; sometimes retarded and sometimes accelerated in their progress, they pass from one region to another. Self-interest, ambition, vainglory, perpetually change the scene of the world, inundate the earth with blood. Yet in the midst of their ravages manners are gradually softened, the human mind takes enlightenment, separate nations draw nearer to each other, commerce and policy connect at last all parts of the globe, and the total mass of the human race, by the alternations of calm and agitation, of good conditions and of bad, marches always, although slowly, towards still higher perfection...

Jacques Turgot

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Phil Collins

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne

Making a life comes before making a living.

Source Unknown

Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.

Anne Sexton

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Lao Tzu

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has a cleavage; they ought to worry if she hasn

Marilyn Monroe

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.

Archibald MacLeish, The Premise

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Rodney Dangerfield

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

Oscar Wilde, The soul of man und

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

Roger Wicker