"Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at." John Evelyn
"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children." John Keats
"It is time for dead languages to be quiet." Natalie Clifford Barney
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, and we learn eternal truths from the past." Chiang Kai-Shek
"In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side." Basil Henry Liddell Hart
"Look, I'm not an intellectual—I just take pictures." Helmut Newton
"I've been married to one marxist and one fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out." Lyova Haskell Rosenthal
"Americans will put up with anything, provided it doesn't block traffic." Dan Rather be Sailing
"It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, `Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'"
"Belfast is like an ugly child—you love it the most."
"Me and George and Billy are two of a kind."
"Deafness has left me acutely aware of both the duplicity that language is capable of and the many expressions the body cannot hide."
"Once the Invisible Hand has taken all the historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity—y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery." Neal Stephenson
"What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies." Peter Jackson
"The real reason I decided on show business was to avoid a day job." Rob Schneider