Jack: That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple. Algernon: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Mark Twain

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Gloria Vanderbilt

It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.

Neil Gaiman

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Bob Dylan

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Frederick Soddy

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Buddha

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

Henny Youngman

Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

Money just draws flies.

Mahalia Jackson

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Stephen Hawking

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Terry Eagleton

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

Annie Leibovitz