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- Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
- William F. Buckley
- I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.
- Louis C. K., Pitchfork interview, 2010
- Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Hilarious, 2011
- All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup." "Dude, you're a genius!"
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Hilarious, 2011
- People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious that that they are true.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain options makes it impossible to earn a living.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
- Thomas Love Peacock
- I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which americans submit to speeches.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.
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