Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Keith Richards

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

Paulo Coelho

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.

William Carlos Williams

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

Jimmy Cannon

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

William B. Davis

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Phyllis Diller

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.

Thomas E. Lawrence

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Susan George

But then just days after it came out, I began to get calls and letters from all over the country saying what a fantastic breakthrough format in journalism. I thought, Jesus Christ . . . I guess I shouldn't say anything. In a way it was an almost accidental breakthrough --- a whole new style of journalism which now passes for whatever Gonzo is . . . accidental and desperation.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

Taylor Kitsch

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Ken Adelman