His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

Billie Joe Armstrong

...governments don't produce economic growth people do.

Ronald Reagan

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Theodor Adorno

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.

Lance Armstrong

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Terry Pratchett

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.

Michael Apostolius

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Oscar Wilde

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

Knute Rockne

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Robert Benchley

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

Rita Hayworth

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Wallace Stevens