"I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop."
"The Prelude to [Wagner's] 'Tristan und Isolde' reminds one of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel."
"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows." William Sydney Porter
"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician." James Jeans
"I'll be sick tonight."
  • Jack Llewelyn Davies
    (09/11/1894 – 09/17/1959)
    English boy (foster son of J. M. Barrie), on stuffing himself with cake and being warned by his mother he'd be sick tomorrow
"I would have loved it—without the French." David Herbert Lawrence
"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you." Paul Bryant
"I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister." Jessica Mitford
"Everybody said how stoic I was on the sidelines, that I didn't show any emotion. You have to understand, I was never on the play the fans were seeing. I was on the next play, or two or three plays after that." Tom Landry
"For God's sake, Walter, why don't you chop off her legs and read the rings?"
"The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times per second." Brian dePalma
"In the beginning there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else." Mickey Hart
"If I go 'round to someone's house and there's an Eric Clapton record, I just walk out."
"At the time I was really flattered that the most succesful artist in the world took the time out to mention me. During his gigs he has a guy dressed up as me come out so he can shoot me dead with a shotgun. It doesn't bother me, I like to think of it as my entry to the pre-school market." Richard Melville Hall
"Safety's just danger, out of place." Harry Connick, Jr.