A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

Chubby Checker

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

Edward F. Halifax

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Ethel Barrymore

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

Michael Hutchence

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Plutarch

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

Robert Shea

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

Sherry Stringfield

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

Karen Mills

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson