I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.

John Oldham, Satire upon a Print

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Sophocles

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

Christine Gregoire

You speak truth, said Themistocles; I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; 4 nor you, had you been of Athens.

Plutarch

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Edward Tufte

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

Marla Maples

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

Alfred Molina

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

George Eliot

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

Doug Horton