It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

Jack Nicholson

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Theodore Hesburgh

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Evelyn Waugh

National Observer became my road gig out of San Francisco. I was too much for them. I would wander in on off hours drunk and obviously on drugs, asking for my messages. Essentially, they were working for me. They liked me, ,but I was the Bull in the China Shop --- The more I wrote about politics the more they realized who they had on their hands. they knew I wouldn't change and neither would they.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Frank A. Clark

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are made in America.

Helen Rowland

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they're capable of understanding.

Steve Prefontaine

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

Paul Kantner

Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.

John Dryden

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

George Bernard Shaw