One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Bill Maher

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

John Ruskin

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

John Hodgman

Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is but one reason. He is not living, except in rare cases here and there, in the conscious realisation of his own true Being, and hence of his own true Self.http://website.lineone.net/~ralphtrine/gtekinx.htm

Ralph Waldo Trine, The Greatest

There's a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I needed to be happy. It would make me feel stable if I had him. If I had someone like him, it would prove that I'm stable, and then I wouldn't have to do the work to get there. I am constantly looking for ways to cede control of my worries to someone, anyone.

Emma Forrest

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

Bill Cosby

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Giacomo Casanova

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

Janeane Garofalo

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

Jodi Picoult

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Samuel Goldwyn

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Steven Patrick Morrissey