Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill to end the bailouts cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

Mitch McConnell

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Erich Fromm

Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.

Alice Thompson

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Will Cuppy

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

Mindy Kaling

Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies, had been honored by an invitation from Kaiser Wilhelm II to attend the annual maneuvers of the Imperial German Army, held at Breslau. The Kaiser was 'resplendent in the uniform of the White Silesian Cuirassiers' and his massed and regimented infantry...Strange to find Winston Churchill and Sylvia Plath both choosing the word 'roller,' in both its juggernaut and wavelike declensions, for that scene.

Christopher Hitchens

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

Terrell Owens

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

J. C. Watts

Do not blame your parents for not working hard enough to birth you with silver spoon in your mouth because tomorrow you will be a parent and your children will in turn blame you for not giving birth to them with the desired silver spoon.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.Some come from ahead and some come from behind.But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)