I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Fredrik Bajer

Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure?

Jacob Bronowski, The Face of Vio

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

William Irwin Thompson

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

Gracie Allen

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

Dave Edmunds

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

Tom Allen

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

Julia Roberts

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

Stone Gossard

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde