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- By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
- Anne Rice (1941 - ), The Vampire Lestat
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.
- Golda Meir (1898 - 1978), to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks.
- When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), "Moby Dick"
- I don't mind living in a man's world as long as i can be a woman in it.
- Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
- I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man.
- Bill Hicks, Comedy routine
- Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), A preface to "Paradise Lost"
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