Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

Conan O'Brien

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

Terry Pratchett

Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning she haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

John Green

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Tom Jenkinson

Truth is child of Time

John Ford

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Vivienne Westwood

O honorable strumpet

William Shakespeare

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

John P. Zenger

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Mahatma Gandhi

God is a slick god. Temple Knows. She knows because of all the crackerjack miracles still to be seen on this ruined globe.

Alden Bell

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

Leslie Vernick

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Henry David Thoreau