I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Jean Paul Richter

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Sophocles

When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed and, as it were, emasculated country... Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature I am conversing with? As if I were to study a tribe of Indians that had lost all it's warriors...I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some of the best of the stars. I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth.

Henry David Thoreau

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

Patricia Hewitt

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.

Andy Milonakis

Manners are stronger than laws

Thomas Carlyle

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

George Bernard Shaw

Many iOS developers model App Store pricing after mass-market superhits. Would you enter the restaurant business by mimicking McDonalds?

Daniel Jalkut

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

John M. McHugh

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

John Updike