Ecology is rather like sex -- every new generation likes to think they were the first to discover it.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Agatha Christie

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Milton Friedman

What is high finance? It?s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It?s no more than that.

John Bentley

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Sheryl Crow

If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.

Irving Layton

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Irvin S. Cobb

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

Dave Chappelle

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

Peter Pace

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Lord Chesterfield

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Henry David Thoreau

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

Neil Gaiman

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Amber Tamblyn