You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

George Bernard Shaw

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Otto Weininger

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifes

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

Bruce Dern

In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, rememberingthat only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, andthat all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.

Olaf Stapledon

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

John Cale

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge, but its quality. You can know many things without knowing that which is most important.

Leo Tolstoy

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Brad Bird

Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

Chris Lowe