We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.

Daniel J. Boorstin

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

Eric Cantona

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Joan Chen

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

Wendell Pierce

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Gertrude Stein

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Andrea Dworkin

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Robert Dale Owen

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

T-Pain

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-

John Green