Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

Muddy Waters

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.

Aldous Huxley

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

Craig Ferguson

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

Karl Malone

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Laini Taylor

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Kahlil Gibran

It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.

Rod Serling

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

Avery Brundage

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.

Demetri Martin

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.

Albert Einstein