It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

Charlie Munger

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Plutarch

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

Leslie Fiedler

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

Emma Thompson

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish

Benjamin Franklin

Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty.

Steve Maraboli

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

Barbara Bush

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Friedrich Schiller

This is the difference between my morality and hedonism. The standard is not: that is good which gives me pleasure, just because it gives me pleasure (which is the standard of the dipsomaniac or the sex-chaser)http://usabig.com/autonomist/articles11/egoist.html

Ayn Rand, The Journals of Ayn Ra

Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Stephen King

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

C. Wright Mills

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

John Legend