I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

Gordon Sumner

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer -- he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Hunter S. Thompson

The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party.

Ronald Reagan

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

Truth is the best defense.

Ward Churchill

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Bill Moyers

Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.

James Iha

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

H. Stanley Judd

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Genevieve Gorder