No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Frank Tyger

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

Maria Sharapova

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Colin Powell

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

George S. Patton

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

Albert Einstein

She's my kitten, and no one else's.

Jeaniene Frost

Would you like a cough drop Dolores?

J.K. Rowling

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!

Peter Berg

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.

Auberon Herbert