The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

Neil Gaiman

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Mason Cooley

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.

Timothy Geithner

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Walter Reuther

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Benito Mussolini

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Jane Austen

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Vera Brittain

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

Dave Attell

It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.

Avril Lavigne

Syllables govern the world.

George Bernard Shaw

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

Heston Blumenthal