Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Marc Chagall

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Euripides

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes.Home plate don't move.

Satchel Paige

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

Molly Ivins

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Benjamin Franklin

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Kevin Bacon

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

Malcolm X

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Ed Bradley

Be ready for the revelation of the truth.

Elia M. Ramollah

Deny Self for Self's sake

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Sidney Lanier