When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Frances O'Grady

Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

Leo Tolstoy

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

Claudius Galen

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

Terry Pratchett

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

Roger Federer

If the earth were flat one could equally well say that the apple fell on Newton's head beacuse of gravity or that Newton's head hit the apple because he and the surface of the earth were accelerating upward.

Albert Einstein

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Andre Breton

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Ho Chi Minh

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

James C. Humes

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music

Martin Luther King Jr.

No news is good news.

Ludovic Halevy

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

John Zorn