To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Alan Dershowitz

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

M. Scott Peck

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

Dweezil Zappa

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Henry David Thoreau

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Rainer Maria Rilke

But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.

Richard Milhous Nixon

That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.

Charles Dickens

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

Billy Corgan

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

William Shakespeare

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

Ethan Hawke

Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these are not made it ceases to exist.

C.S. Lewis