We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement betweenProfessor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins,concerning punctuated evolution and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shallresolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication.

No heartbreak has grieved me as much to discover, the calorie content of my peanut butter.

Coco J. Ginger

A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.

John K. Hutchens

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Billie Holiday

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

Michael Ondaatje

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

Brett Favre

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

Pierre de Coubertin

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

Edward Burns

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

William Styron

I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.

Brett Favre

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Susan Sontag

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Charles M. Schwab