Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Source Unknown

You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.

Proverb

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

John Adams

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Carmelo Anthony

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

Steffi Graf

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

Helen Thomas

True love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

Dianne Feinstein

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

Mary Kay Blakely

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Ridley Scott

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

Rob Sheffield

There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.

Richard Marek