The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

Moon Unit Zappa

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lewis E. Lawes

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action

Bertrand Russell

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them

Terry Pratchett

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

Alton Brown

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.

John Searle

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Florence Nightingale

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

Paul Ryan

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

Thomas Jefferson

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

Charles R. Swindoll

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Bob Newhart