I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a soreAnd then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar overlike a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy lead. Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

Martin Luther King Jr.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

Peyton Manning

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Heinrich Heine, attributed at hi

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Louisa May Alcott

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

Patty Hearst

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

John Charles Polanyi

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

John Landgraf

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.

John Milton

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

W. Averell Harriman

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Henry Lawson