Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
—Laurence J. Peter
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
—Ken Kesey
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
—Rod Serling
Disappointment is part of life. Just like change.
—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
—Frank Deford
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
—Jim Horning
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
—Albert Einstein
If you can just stop loving her then you never really loved her at all. Love doesn’t work that way. If you ever truly love someone, then it never goes away. It can become something else. There are all different sorts of love. It can even become hate—a thin line and all that—and, really, hate is just another kind of caring.
—Blakney Francis in Someone I Used to Know
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
—Theodore Dreiser
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
—Pablo Picasso
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
—Jean Cocteau
You can observe a lot just by watching.
—Yogi Berra
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
—Gene Fowler
Truly powerful people don’t explain why they want respect. They simply don’t engage someone who doesn’t give it to them.
—Sherry Argov in Why Men Love Bitches
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
—Alfred North Whitehead