I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Walter Lippmann

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charlie Chaplin

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them.

Victor Hugo

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

Heather Matarazzo

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

Joe Lieberman

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

Tony Blair

I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.

Albert Einstein

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

William Shakespeare

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

Dave Matthews

I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.

Michael Symon

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

William Congreve