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- Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
- Jessica Alba
- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P. Jones
- I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
- The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school’s curriculum.
- George F. Will (1941 - ), Newsweek, July 4, 2005
- If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- ...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
- The art of being bored is lost.
- Ted Klauber, Senior Executive, FCB Worldwide
- I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
- Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
- How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse-Five
- Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
- Viktor Frankl, "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" Man's Search for Meaning (1959, 1962, 1985)
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