..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. someone may say. It seems to occur to few of the attendees that if you have a feeling you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.

Stephen King

Age for me is just a number.

Haile Gebrselassie

Who can direct when all pretend to know?

Oliver Goldsmith

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

David Hume

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

George Santayana

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

David Kay

The future belongs to crowds.

Don DeLillo

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Ralph Thomas Walker

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Harold S. Geneen

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Katherine Mansfield

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

Alexis Arguello