If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

George William Curtis

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Peter Townsend

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

Adam Schiff

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Edward Dahlberg

She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She'd fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She'd really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She'd have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow - no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

Joy Williams

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

Karel Capek

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Martha Stewart

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Ella Maillart

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

Oliver Goldsmith

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Grover Norquist