Flannery O'Connor

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

Bill Vaughan

"An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves."

Tom Stoppard

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill ( Read more... )

Robin Williams

"Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money."

Anatole France

"To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture."

Marshall McLuhan

"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening."

Franklin P. Jones

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Dr. Seuss

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

Frank Herbert

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."

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"Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack."

Voltaire

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."

Robert Wilensky

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Edith Sitwell

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."

Adolf Hitler

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I'm not totally useless. I am at least a bad example.
-- Quinton

George Bernard Shaw

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

Paul Gauguin

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Rita Rudner

"I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight."

Mae West

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."

Peter De Vries

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."

Calvin Coolidge

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Alfred North Whitehead

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."

James Thurber

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."

Gustave Flaubert

"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."

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Franklin P. Adams

"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

Steven Pearl

"I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter."

Peter Sellers

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