Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?''Faffing about, most likely', said Will.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Harry S. Truman

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Phyllis Diller

...a force that operates year-in and year-out, whenever we are at high employment, to push up prices. It's a price creep, not a price gallop; but the bad thing about it is that, instead of setting in only after you have reached overfull employment, the suspicion is dawning that it may be a problem that plagues us even when we haven't arrived at a satisfactory level of employment.describing cost-push inflation

Paul A. Samuelson, (interview),

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Robert Alexander Schumann

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Charles Kuralt

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Sir Winston Churchill

With wide-embracing love Thy Spirit animates eternal years, Pervades and broods above, Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.

Emily Bronte

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Johann von Goethe

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nature has always had more force than education.

Voltaire

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Samuel Johnson