Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Everything you go through grows you.

Robert Tew

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

Bill Hicks

Fear always springsfrom ignorance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Abraham Lincoln

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Ernst Fischer

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Anita Brookner

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Kahlil Gibran

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

Matthew Modine

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

Kim Cattrall, Interview by Dan S