VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

I am a part of all that I have seen.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.

If you took all the sincerity in Hollywood and put it in the navel of a fruit fly, you'd still have room for three carraway seeds and a producer's heart. -Fred Allen.

Pissed as a fart.

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark, and darkly pure. Which follows the decline of day, As twilight melts beneath the moon away.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain: But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best; He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.

We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man.

O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island!