When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

Nikita Khrushchev

My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'

Jayma Mays

All revolutions devour their own children.

Ernst Rohm

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

James Young

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

Thomas S. Monson

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

T.S. Eliot

I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.

Antonio Banderas

War is at its best barbarism.

William Tecumseh Sherman

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Michael Shermer

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

Thomas R. Cech