Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

William Shakespeare

One who cares is one who listens.

J. Richard Clarke

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

Tom Sizemore

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

Jackson Browne

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

Patrick J. Kennedy

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

Xavier Niel

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

Bernard Baruch

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Margaret Thatcher

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

Evo Morales

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Gustave Flaubert, Trans. by Will