Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Sarojini Naidu

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

Thomas Frank

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Edward de Bono

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Honore de Balzac, Treatise on Mo

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

Glenn Close

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

John Tillotson

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Jodi Picoult

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

Michael Symon

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

Lisa Loeb

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy!

Craig Bruce

How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?

John Steinbeck