I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the tribe will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.

Stephen Richards

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

Tracey Gold

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Mark Twain

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

Tommy Chong

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Jimmy Carter

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

Aleister Crowley

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Charles W. Eliot

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Aretha Franklin

My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

Ludacris

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Scott Turow