I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

Susan Sontag

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Julia Sweeney

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potter

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Thom Yorke

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

John Christian Morgenstern

The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Richard M. Nixon

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

David O. Selznick

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Millard Fuller

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

Proverb

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

James Branch Cabell