A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

Wes Borland

Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth.

Toba Beta

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

C.S. Lewis

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Malcom X

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

T-Pain

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and . . . adore thee.

Colley Cibber, The Lady's Last S

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul Alinsky

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

Alfred Molina

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.

Craig Silvey

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

Sade Adu

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

C. J. Cherryh

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Thomas Jefferson