If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.

Larry McMurtry

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

William S. Burroughs

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world -- to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Reese Witherspoon

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm a bit of a romantic.

Eric Bana

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Harriet Martineau

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Eminem

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

Jon Crosby

On the other hand, if the future is not the one you chose then you may have to use your willpower to obtain the future of your liking.

Stephen Richards

This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Baltasar Gracian