The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Jacques Plante

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

Tim Heidecker

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri

George Orwell

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea.

Source Unknown

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

Heidi Murkoff

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

William Arthur Ward

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

Edward Lear

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

Emile Hirsch

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Theodore Parker

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Stendhal