It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Dweezil Zappa

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

Junius

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

Bonnie Hunt

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Uta Hagen

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guys pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

Cynthia Nixon

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

Jerry Zucker

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Alexander McCall Smith

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Lewis Carroll

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Gerrit Smith

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Simone de Beauvoir