I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

Anton Chekhov

Never take the first brick out of the wall unless you know it is meant to fall

Bathsheba Dailey

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

Jean Paul

Makakapili ka ng lugar na uupuan mo, pero hindi mo mapipili ang taong uupo sa puwang sa tabi mo... Ganyan ang senaryo sa bus. Ganyan din sa pag-ibig... Lalong 'di mo kontrolado kung kelan siya bababa.

Bob Ong

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.

Jason Mraz

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

Christopher Hitchens

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

H. L. Phillips

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

Martin Scorsese

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

Major Owens

Sport fosters many things that are good teamwork and leadership.

Daley Thompson

Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.

Eric Parslow