The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Scott Adams

In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.

Irene Gut Opdyke

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.

Tom Sharp

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Spike Jonze

When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

William James

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as a tree as it ought to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

Gerald Early

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Edward Gibbon

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Voltaire

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fo

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

Rachael Ray

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin