Use Quotes - Page 49

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.

Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.