One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

John Milton

God tells every religion that it is His favorite.

Michael Lipsey

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.

Werner Heisenberg

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Henry Miller

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

Angela Lambert

But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles

Anna Nalick

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Robert Motherwell

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Chloe Sevigny

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.

Hubert Humphrey