Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

Mason Cooley

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Julia Roberts

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Erma Bombeck

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

Johnny Knoxville

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

Arthur Laffer

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

Andrea Riseborough

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Igor Stravinsky

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Sir Winston Churchill

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

Dave Barry

I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.

Taylor Momsen

The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.

American Indian Proverb, Southwe

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

Benjamin Franklin