We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

Stephen King

I have a friend named Dennis. Both of his parents were midgets,but he isn't a midget. He's a midgetdwarf. He's two inchestall. He's the one who poses for trophies.

Steven Wright

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.

Alison Krauss

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Hans Selye

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Tryon Edwards

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

George Orwell

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Guy Pearce

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

B. F. Skinner

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Henry Fielding, The History of T

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Ted Turner