Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
—Alfred Whitney Griswold
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
—John Ruskin
When you refuse to settle for less than the best, the best tends to track you down.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
—Voltaire
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
—Robert Byrne
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
—John Ruskin
Television — a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
—Ernie Kovacs
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
—Oscar Wilde
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.
—Alice Kahn
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
—Mark Twain
Quality is pride of workmanship.
—W. Edwards Deming
Because he was nice in the beginning did not mean he was a good man.
—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
—Charles Eames
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
—Martin Luther King Jr.