We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

Freddie Mercury

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren G. Bennis

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Holding a grudge

Steve Maraboli

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.

Eugene Chadbourne

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

Liv Tyler

To be or not to be.

William Shakespeare

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

Helen Reddy

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

Bum Phillips

Pressure makes diamonds

George S. Patton Jr.

The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally.

Samuel H. Hammond

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

Estelle Morris