Not to be too dramatic about it, that night I slept the sleep of the damned. I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tine aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun.

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Hilaire Belloc

I do have big tits. Always had 'em -- pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.

Dolly Parton

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.

Ricki Lake

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Richard Bach

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Stephen Leacock

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

John F. Kennedy

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Erykah Badu

It was not desirable that the pitiless should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.

George Orwell

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Benjamin Disraeli

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Mel Brooks