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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.

Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.

Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while

Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available. Initially I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was attained I would keep raising the prices, very much like the excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime. I would use a portion of the income for prevention and treatment. And I would foster social opprobrium of drug use.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.

I can never do nothing in this house!

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

I would vote for Johnny Depp. We could use a president that could swashbuckle.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

If you criticize others' ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.

In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish.

I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.