You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
—Oscar Wilde
So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
—Tom Robbins
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
—Virgil Thomson
Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.
—Johnny Carson
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
—P. G. Wodehouse
What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.
—Ellen DeGeneres