When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!

Orson Scott Card

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Ezra Pound

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

Leo Tolstoy

Beauty and grace command the world.

Park Benjamin

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

Umberto Eco

Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

Gary Allan

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

William Hazlitt

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

Vivienne Westwood

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or christian; from black or white; from the dey of Algiers or the bey of Tunis; from the devil himself, if he wore a crown, we should receive a minister.

Henry Clay

If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.

Zayn Malik

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

Laura Schlessinger