People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rainer Maria Rilke

As Narcissus fell in love with an outering (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body.

Marshall McLuhan

There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the loveliest of hers. They had nineteen children, and were always having more.

Charles Dickens

The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.

Craig Roberts

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

Keith Richards

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Ernest Renan

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

Rand Paul

Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Hamming

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

David Gest

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

Samuel Johnson

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

Thomas Henry Huxley