With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

Jessica Szohr

Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.

Sir Walter Scott

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Daniel Webster

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

Maynard James Keenan

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

George Bernard Shaw

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Dick Gregory

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Robert Orben

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

Phil Simms

Unless followed by the world 'education', has now lost this meaning [seeking knowledge or doing something for its own sake -- i.e. 'freely' with no exterior motive]. For that loss, so damanging to the whole of our cultural outlook, we must thank those who made it the name, first of a political, and then a religious, party. The same irresponsible rapacity, the desire to appropriate a word for its 'selling-power', has often done linguistic mischief. It is not easy now to say at all in English what the word would have said if it had not been 'cornered' by politicians. , , , and have been destroyed in the same way. Sometimes the arrogation is so outrageous that it fails; the Quakers have not killed the word . And sometimes so many different people grab at the coveted word for so many different groups or factions that, while it is spoiled for its original purpose, none of the grabbers achieve secure possession. is an example; it will probably end by being a term of eulogy as vague as .

C.S. Lewis

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

J. (Joshua) Reuben Clark, Jr.