A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Gary Cherone

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Reba McEntire

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Stephen Gardiner

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Simone de Beauvoir

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.

Christopher Shays

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

B. C. Forbes

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Wilhelm Reich

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.

John Green

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

Mark Twain

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

Matthew Simpson