Homer

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Muhammed Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Michelle Shocked

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

James Joyce (1882-1941)

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Alfred Newman (1900-1970)

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Rita Dove

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

George Carlin (1937-2008)

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

Don Rickles

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Gene Krupa (1909-1973)

Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It's just wonderful.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)

A functioning police state needs no police.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Ornette Coleman

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

Johannes Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Brian May

What is left of your dream?
Just the words on your stone.
A man who learned how to teach
then forgot how to learn.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Miles Davis (1926-1991)

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

People can die of mere imagination

Monty Hall

It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience.

Ryunosuke Satoro

Extend a hand whether or not you know it shall be grasped.