Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Martha Graham

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

John Boehner

If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

V. S. Pritchett

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

Thomas Jefferson

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Jim Elliot

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Samuel Butler

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

Henrik Ibsen, Enemy of the Peopl

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old

Martin Luther King Jr.

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.

Mike Ditka

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Jean de la Bruyere