My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

Boy George

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

Jonathan Frid

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

Brian Celio

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

Billy Bob Thornton

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Mitch Hedberg

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Lamar S. Smith

Action conquers fear.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

Edward Furlong

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

John L. Lewis