We live but a fraction of our lives

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

Oscar Wilde

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Adrian Edmondson

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

Terry Pratchett

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

Marc Andreessen

Upon the standard to which the wise and honest will now repair it is written: You have lived the easy way; henceforth, you will live the hard way. You came into a great heritage made by the insight and the sweat and the blood of inspired and devoted and courageous men; thoughtlessly and in utmost self-indulgence you have all but squandered this inheritance. Now only by the heroic virtues which made this inheritance can you restore it again. You took the good things for granted. Now you must earn them again. For every right that you cherish, you have a duty which you must fulfill. For every hope that you entertain, you have a task that you must perform. For every good that you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease. There is nothing for nothing any longer.

Walter Lippmann

Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Henry Miller

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title

Virginia Woolf

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power

Samuel Johnson

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

Bud Abbott

Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Patricia Fripp