The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Jerry Seinfeld

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

Michael Haneke

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Ahmet Zappa

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

William Faulkner, character Thom

A customer who complains is my best friend.

Stew Leonard

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

Andrea Corr

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Joseph Addison

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

Jackie Mason

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson