Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody

Sarah Bernhardt, The Art of the

Trust in your preparation.

Davie Sheppard

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.

St. Vincent

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.

Abraham Lincoln

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

J.R.R. Tolkien

Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

Garry Shandling

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

Herb Kelleher

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

Paul Tillich

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.

Carl Van Vechten

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Edward F. Halifax

I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.

Jimmy Fallon

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

Timothy Murphy