It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizonLike a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape;Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forestSeemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evan

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

Ben Stein

Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.

Virginia Woolf

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

Billy Sunday

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

William Shakespeare

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Aldous Huxley

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

Christy Romano

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

Walter Lang

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

Eric Hoffer