After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.

Charles Dickens

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Malcolm Arnold

The evidence of the emotions, save in cases where it has strong objective support, is really no evidence at all, for every recognizable emotion has its opposite, and if one points one way then another points the other way. Thus the familiar argument that there is an instinctive desire for immortality, and that this desire proves it to be a fact, becomes puerile when it is recalled that there is also a powerful and widespread fear of annihilation, and that this fear, on the same principle proves that there is nothing beyond the grave. Such childish proofs are typically theological, and they remain theological even when they are adduced by men who like to flatter themselves by believing that they are scientific gents...

H. L. Mencken

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

Tyler Perry

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

George Ade

Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again my memory echoesmy people die for lack of knowledge.

Blaise Tshibwabwa

Being gifted needs courage.

Georg Brandes

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

Jon Taffer

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Tim O'Brien

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Boris Yeltsin