[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Creative forms is really where it's at for contemporary poetry.

James Dye

You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.

Lleyton Hewitt

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

Bernardo Bertolucci

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

John Marsden

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

George Saunders

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

Mark Hatfield

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

Corey Feldman

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Bob Hope

One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent.

Alan Keyes