If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scar

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.

Ted Demme

The most important thing is to stay positive.

Saku Koivu

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

Joan Jett

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence J. Peter

No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.

John Boehner

It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.

Robin Jones Gunn

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

Dan Lipinski

Cincinnati is honourably famous for its free schools, of which it has so many that no person's child among its population can, by possibility, want the means of education.

Charles Dickens

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Mark Twain

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

Anne Robinson