A majority is always better than the best repartee.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Christine Gregoire

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

Kelly Clarkson

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Sigmund Freud

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

Isaac Asimov

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Christopher Hitchens

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

Constantin Brancusi

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

William Pitt The Elder Chatham

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Estelle Morris

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Tina Turner

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

G. K. Chesterton