The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

Eric McCormack

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Thomas Jefferson

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

Ron Fournier

It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Carrie P. Snow

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

Halldór Laxness

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Source Unknown

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

Don Adams

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.

John Berger, Why Look at Animals

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Albert Einstein