A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

Jermaine Jackson

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

Matthew Bourne

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

John Keats

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

Tim Bell

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Constantin Brancusi

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

Walter Abish

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

William Jefferson Clinton

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

Ethel Merman

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.

George Grosz

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Richard M. Nixon