The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

Jodi Picoult

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Mitch Hedberg

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He as been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.

Albert Einstein

I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

Ronnie Dunn

As a soldier who has spent a quarter of his life in the study of the science of arms, let me tell you I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare thoroughly and efficiently for war, you get war.

Frederick B. Maurice

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Robert Hass

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race

Mark Twain

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Mickey Rourke

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

James Russell Lowell

Your value is in your individuality.

Dorla Rudd Jenkins

When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.

Daniel Mackler

Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld