You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the earth, a little grain of sand in comparison with Sirius and others, and one's life span in comparison with billions on billions of ages. There is only one significance, you are a worker. The assignment is inscribed in your reason and heart and expressed clearly and comprehensibly by the best among the beings similar to you. The reward for doing the assignment is immediately within you. But what the significance of the assignment is or of its completion, that you are not given to know, nor do you need to know it. It is good enough as it is. What else could you desire?

Leo Tolstoy

All men are equal before fish.

Herbert Hoover

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Calvin Coolidge

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

David BenGurion

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.

Richard Dean Anderson

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Susan Sontag

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

Ernest Hemingway

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

George Eliot

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

Ice Cube

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe