Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Blanche Lincoln

I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windows...the displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcity...mimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

Jean Baudrillard

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.

will.i.am

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

John Green

I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet

Rodney Dangerfield

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

Tom Cruise

None of us really pushes hard enough.

Fran Tarkenton

There are three arts which are concerned with all things; one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them

Plato

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning.

Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Pea