"Clemency is also a revolutionary measure." Camille Desmoulins
"A victim of the use of water as a beverage." Sam Houston
"It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man." Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi
"You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it."
"One Galileo in two thousand years is enough." Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Eugenio Pacelli
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." Theodore (Dr. Seuss) Geisel
"I dislike censorship. Like an appendix it is useless when inert and dangerous when active." Maurice+J.+Edelman
"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor." Phyllis Flora Isley
"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard." Mikhail Gorbachev
"A cult is a religion with no political power." Tom Wolfe
"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."
"I like to think of us as Clearasil on the face of the nation. Jim Morrison would have said that if he was smart, but he's dead." Lou Reed
"I try to sit down and write a Rory Gallagher song, which generally happens to be quite bluesy. I try to find different issues, different themes and different topics that haven't been covered before...I've done songs in all the different styles...train blues, drinking blues, economic blues. But I try to find a slightly different angle on all these things. The music can be very traditional, but you can sort of creep into the future with the lyrics.." Rory Gallagher
"The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people." Karen Carpenter
"If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos." John Bongiovi
"My parents are both redheads, so they knew I was going to be a redhead. They just thought Bryce Canyon was very strong and it was red. And they thought it was beautiful. So they named me Bryce. And Dallas is where I was conceived. My parents are hippies." Bryce Dallas Howard