Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving. (Penn Jillette)

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11) (Richard Milhous Nixon)

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes. (Harrison Ford)

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. (Peter Kropotkin)

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. (Yiddish Proverb)

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death. (Miguel de Cervantes)

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile) (Ronald Reagan)

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. (H. Jackson Browne)

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. (Edward Verall Lucas)

To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd. (Thomas Herrick)

No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. (Tom Thompson)

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. (Floyd Dell)

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. (Hank Aaron)

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either. (Jerry Coleman)

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. (Cullen Hightower)

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. (John Burroughs)

Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. (Bob Ross)

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman. (Erma Bombeck)

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun (Katharine Graham)