I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Leroy Brownlow

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

Joseph Barbera

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.

Carol Bellamy

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Ken Keyes Jr.

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

Corey Stoll

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Jennifer Donnelly

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William Wordsworth

In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.

Orson Scott Card