When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Alfred Russel Wallace

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

(Edward A. Murphy Murphy's Law

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

June Jordan

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

George Eliot

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

Bjorn Lomborg

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Billie Jean King

We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

Colin Mochrie

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image, c

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

Menander

Did you let him know that if he can't see fit to return your blow job immediately, you will have no choice but to sue?

Meg Cabot

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Ambrose Bierce

May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch

Keisha Keenleyside