Quotes Of The Day

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. P. J. O'rourke

Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron's mission." "We don't mind running. Even when we don't have to. Aaron Allston

You have to grow. If not you're then living in regret and you're living in the past and you're not progressing forward. And I learned the mistakes that I made and they made me stronger. Liz Carmouche

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature. Hermann Weyl

Release what is good. Philip Yancey

“If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.” Auberon Herbert

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions. Andrew Bird

My son is my routine and priority, period! Cory Hardrict

If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine. Willa Cather

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone. Jan Hammer

I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with. Sxip Shirey

Nobody has ever respected me and done things for me and loved me. So when Howard (former husband J. Howard Marshall II) came along, it was a blessing. He is the only person in my life who does not care about what other people say about me. He truly loves me and I love him for it. Anna Nicole Smith

“I believe in eight of the ten commandments; and I believe in going to church every Sunday unless there's a game on” Steve Martin

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. Eliezer Yudkowsky

“It's a super course, longer than usual, but not very hard; it has good flows.” Seth Wescott

“We're just trying to win games ­- ­it's not about who you're playing or where you're going. We got the effort and the defense is back to where it should be and if we can take care of the ball a little better I think we'll be okay.” Derek Thomas

“The consumer was in fairly good shape before Hurricane Katrina. Sales were strong virtually across the board.” Dean Maki

Who Are We to Tell Anyone What They Can or Can't Do? Behnam Rajabpoor

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. Gro Harlem Brundtland

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter. Cynthia Heimel