The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

All truth is God's truth.

Arthur F. Holmes

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Francis Parkman

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Julien de la Mettrie, The Human

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

Michael Caine

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

St. Basil

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Warren G. Bennis

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Raoul Vaneigem

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

Clint Black

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Michelle Obama

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

She was so fat that her bikini is made out of two bed sheets (kingsize)

Rodney Dangerfield