"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people." Sir Isaac Newton
"The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me." Clara Barton
"All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work." Chaja Rubinstein
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
"My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience." Cabell Calloway III
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'" Denis Pratt
"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." Rod Serling
"As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced." Alan Kniberg
"I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees." Irish Elizabeth McCalla
"No person is important enough to make me angry."
"[My daughter loves playing] cowpersons and Indians."
"Truth is stranger than fishin'." Jimmy Buffet
"You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them." Mary Elizabeth Spacek
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans—unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." Karl Rove
"Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death." Annie Lennox
"Bush doesn’t know the names of countries, he doesn’t know the names of foreign leaders, he can’t even find the Earth on a globe." Doug Ferrari
"In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful." Helena Christensen