"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air." William Gilmore Simms
"A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one." J. Pierpont Morgan
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides." Artur Schnabel
"What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?" Karen Blixen
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river." Nikita Krushchev
"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." Thornton Wilder
"Hell is paved with Good Samaritans." William Holden
"Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn . . . then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable."
"Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis." Liz Phair