"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Smith Adams
"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."
"No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair." George S. Patton
"The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy."
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks." Jonathan Winters
"Setting out just to be different is almost as bad as copying." Mose John Allison, Jr.
"If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best."
"Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again."
"We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say." Andy Partridge
"I'm sure there are a lot of people who think I'm a bitch." Demetria Gene Guynes
"I would like to take this opportunity just to tell the press to KISS MY SKINNY WHITE ASS" Calista Flockhart
"Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo." Leonardo DiCaprio