The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Mark Twain

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Marquis de Sade

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Mark Twain

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Thomas Jefferson

The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned.

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Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

Sarah Chalke

Physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

Joseph Pilates

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.

Jo Ann Davis

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Helen Alfredsson

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar