God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

Harold Rosenberg

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Alain de Botton

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

Tom Lantos

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Pope John Paul II

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

Mitch Hedberg

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Aristotle

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Horace

You know how it is when you're walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there's one more step? I'm like that all the time.

Steven Wright

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Mary Cheney

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

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

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

Joan Jett