"(W)hen evil at its most banal intersects with stupidity at its most pure, well, that's entertainment."
David Eggers
"Just as physical man, in his cities, has manufactured an environment whose scope and challenge and hostility eclipse that of the natural world, so literate man has heaped up a counterfeit universe capable of supporting life."
John Updike
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Robert Frost
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
General George S. Patton
"Describe things as better than they are and you'll be called a romantic; describe them as worse than they are and they'll call you a realist; describe them exactly as they are and you'll be thought of as a satirist."
Novelist Quentin Crisp
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they should be."
British Author William Hazlitt
"If you find a path with no obtacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
Author Frank A. Clark
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."
Anatole France
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
Thomas Edison
"There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you're 18."
P.J. O'Rourke
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make."
Michael Chabon
"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity. It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."
William Faulkner
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"History is after all only a pack of tricks we play on the dead."
Voltaire
"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do the maintenance."
Kurt Vonnegut
"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time. I owe him my best."
Joe Dimaggio
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- which is: Try to please everybody."
Journalist Herbert Bayard
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill
"Tack is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
Sir Isaac Newton
"This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Actress Mary Pickford
"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"There is no present or future. Only the past happening over and over again."
Eugene O'Neill
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
Dan Zadra
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
Benjamin Franklin
"There are two kinds of light - the glow the illuminates, and the glare the obscures."
James Thurber
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
Voltaire
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
John F. Kennedy
"You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out."
Warren Buffett
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
Pearl Buck
"We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."
John Foster Dulles
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
"The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating great issues on their merits."
Winston Churchill
"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man or woman. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and the thirty-two-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal."
Robert F. Kennedy
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
Abraham Lincoln
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