Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

Debra Winger

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

Mike O'Malley

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

Andy Rooney

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Bill Dixon

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Wavy Gravy

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Anita Loos

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

Barack Obama

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Conan O'Brien

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.

Dinaw Mengestu

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

Ellen Burstyn

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow