In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

Lew Wasserman

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Eddie Izzard

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Edmund Husserl

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

Kevin Spacey

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Logan Pearsall Smith

My work is a game, a very serious game.

M. C. Escher

You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

Neil Gaiman

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Desmond Tutu

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

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Louise J. Kaplan