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- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
- Noam Chomsky (1928 - )
- Time didn't pass; it tailgated.
- Spider Robinson, Callahan's Key
- And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb.
- John Gotti
- You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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