At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.

Colin Mochrie

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

Plato

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

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This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

Jane Pauley

No one man is superior to the game.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Emily Dickinson

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Nahum Tate

That presumption should be joined to meanness is extreme injustice.

Blaise Pascal

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Robert Ballard

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

Thomas Gray

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and c

Albert Einstein

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

Reggie Watts