The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Willa Cather

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Rue McClanahan

If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.

Joel McHale

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Shelley Winters

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

Eric Liu

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

Max Weber

Language is fossil poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

Syesha Mercado

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

Eddie Campbell

CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Ambrose Bierce