When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Jean Baudrillard

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Tony Martin

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

Samuel Butler

Next comes the realist phase (After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.).

Terry Pratchett

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Jean Claude Van Damme

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Stephen King

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

Dick Cheney

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Herman Hesse

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Ernest Renan

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

David Crystal

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Franklin D. Roosevelt