Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Billy Graham

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

Haruki Murakami

The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

G. K. Chesterton

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

Kate Smith

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

Adam Carolla

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

James Buchan

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

Studs Terkel

You never know what'll happen in politics.

Claire McCaskill

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Trofim Lysenko

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Susanne K. Langer, Mind, An Essa

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

Monty Python

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare