No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don't amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that's how you get even with these boys.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts,

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

Andre Rieu

Literature is news that STAYS news.

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Esther Dyson

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Christine Keeler

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Nina Fedoroff

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Samuel Butler

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

Trevor Dunn

And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.

Edward Everett

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Proverb