Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Gerrit Smith

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

Lawrence Kasdan

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

Joe Biden

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Pliny the Elder

A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.

Source Unknown

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

Janice Dickinson

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!

Elijah Wood

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Annie Lennox

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

SengTs'an

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Joseph Conrad

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau