You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.

- Charles Barkley

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.

- Woodrow Wilson

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid of dying.

- General Douglas MacArthur

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

- Woodrow Wilson

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

- Marie Curie

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

- Abbie Hoffman (stated right before he was arrested)

You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

- Allen Ginsberg

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

- Lily Tomlin

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.

- Joseph Campbell

(via Priscilla Gilman)

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

- Hunter S. Thompson

From a single crime know the nation.

- Virgil

Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

- Stephen Colbert

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

- Edwin Hubble