Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guil

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Joanne Harris

Fear is exciting for me.

Ayrton Senna

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

C. Everett Koop

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Richard D. Rosen

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.

Pras Michel

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

John Barrymore

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes and yet she will be woman still.

Ernestine Rose

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Dagobert D. Runes

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

Rex Hunt

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

William Hazlitt

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

Will Smith