If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Cleo Moore

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

Michael Eisner

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree.

Melanie MacSmiley

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

Charles Horton Cooley

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Clint Eastwood

I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.

Rachel McAdams

With Cosmic Ordering life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

Stephen Richards

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Yiddish Proverb

When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi , but for a boy growing up after 1945 the shock of encountering the emblem at all was a memorable one. I later learned that in the mid-1930s Kipling had caused this 'signature' to be removed from all his future editions. Having initially sympathized with some of the early European fascist movements, he wanted to express his repudiation of Hitlerism (or 'the Hun,' as he would perhaps have preferred to say), and wanted no part in tainting the ancient Indian rune by association. In its origin it is a Hindu and Jainas symbol for light, and well worth rescuing.

Christopher Hitchens

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Karl Kraus

Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I asked.She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, 'Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

John Green