We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

Kevin James Breaux

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry David Thoreau

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Michael Haneke

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Millard Drexler

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

Dave Brubeck

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

Ron White

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.

John Ruskin

Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;In various talk th' instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;One speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenA third interprets motions, looks and eyes;At every word a reputation dies.

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the

... nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout.

Eric Chaisson

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?

Jane Austen

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasa

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Colonel Harland Sanders