I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little picturesof cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around incircles.

Steven Wright

The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.

Steve Jobs

We need a new religion.

Lauren Hutton

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you...

LouisFerdinand Celine, The narra

A man must know how to look before he can hope to see.

George R.R. Martin

Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.

Jaffar Hussein

This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger.Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning.

Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Demo

Life is about timing.

Carl Lewis

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Aretha Franklin

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

Philip Zimbardo

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Morris West