A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Fran Lebowitz

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Nikita Khrushchev

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Robert Collier

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Henry David Thoreau

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Douglas Trumbull

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.

Rachel Ward

On Alexander Lukashenko: I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you as the election results we can see testify (as quoted in Results of the official visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus, 1 Dec. 2009, from belarus.by, the official website of the Republic of Belarus

Silvio Berlusconi

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

Benjamin Franklin

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead

Voltaire

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

Ezra Taft Benson