Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

Robert Crumb

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Ambrose Bierce

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

Marshall McLuhan

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

You can plant a dream.

Anne Campbell

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment; I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

Michael Ian Black

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

William James Mayo, National Edu

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

Jean Baudrillard