I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

Donald Knuth

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Ogden Nash

You start losing a client the moment you get it.

Jay Chiat

Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.

T.F. Hodge

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Chris Van Hollen

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

Jane Campion

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Le Corbusier

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

Cyndi Lauper

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo

Ambrose Bierce

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

John Adams