I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Alan Dershowitz

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

Paul Lynde

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Jerry Leiber

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Joseph Conrad

A right delayed is a right denied.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

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Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten. Science is got by diligence; but Discretion and Wisdom cometh of GOD.

Pythagoras

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.

Donna Leon

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Katharine Hepburn

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

Tom Stoppard

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

Florence King