"Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.
(In this country [England], it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.)"
Jean Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so."
"Considering that his hair is like that of a gollywog and his clothes noticeable the other end of Trafalgar Square, this is an odd assertion."
"Friends are God's apology for relations."
"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
"Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor."
"To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."
"Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning." Marlo Thomas
"I thought they was paddin' the payrolls or something. I didn't realize they were using five piano players and six guitar guys cause it was something they dug." Mack Rebennack
"Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it." Harold Ramis
"There are only three ages for women in Hollywood—Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy." Goldie Jean Hawn
"All we had ever heard about record company people was that they were vampires and criminals and they killed Elvis Presley." Björk Guðmundsdóttir
"I don't worry about the past. The homers will take care of the future. And that will make the present okay." Ken Griffey, Jr.