Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Carl Yastrzemski

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Washington Irving

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

Ryan Stiles

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

Michelle Malkin

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.

Tim Pawlenty

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Victor Hugo

Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Alexander Pope

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Napoleon Hill

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

J. J. Abrams

It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Blaise Pascal

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Thomas Hardy