You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

David Simon

Men argue, nature acts.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.

Diana Wynne Jones

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Let's face it God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

Bill Maher

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Charles Ives

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture

Bertrand Russell

Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

Nile Rodgers

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Herman Melville