If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Daniel Bell

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Peter Steele

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

John Gay

[...] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.''We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.

Charles Dickens

In my carpet bag are the mushrooms that I gathered in the woods. With two fingers I pick up a piece and look at it. Then I take a bite and wait for my body to react. Now I'm in a better mood. In a short time I'll be dead. Or alive. I'm not always sure that there's any difference.

Peter H. Fogtdal

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Samuel Johnson

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Gay Talese

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa

Retail is detail.

James Gulliver

arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom

Celso Cukierkorn

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Burt Lancaster