"Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!"
"No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted."
"I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation."
"But I'm not so think as you drunk I am."
"All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'." Moss Hart
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." John Steinbeck
"It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how." Walden Robert Cassotto
"We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement." Richard J. Daley
"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."
"Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me." Artur Rubenstein
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."
"We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked."
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." Carl Sagan
"In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms—so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down." Denise Levertov