Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

Bill O'Reilly

Liberation is not deliverance.

Victor Hugo

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

George Eliot

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Kenneth Olsen

The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

Thomas Jefferson

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

Wynton Marsalis

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

David Mamet

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Samuel Johnson

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

George Bernard Shaw

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

Andrew Davies

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Jacqueline Bisset