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| [It's easy to wax satirical about the possibility that in some future time there could be more poets laureate in Colorado than readers of poetry. The fact is, poetry is an endangered species, and even those of us with a more prosaic bent can appreciate the importance of encouraging a broader audience. Of course, even poets have different views of what they do. Pablo Neruda wrote, for example, that] poetry is an act of peace, ... Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. | | Robert Frost | |
| [Its nearest rival, I discovered, is The Last Question by science fiction maestro Isaac Asimov. This is the one about what happens when all the stars burn out. Is entropy reversible?] It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story, ... They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should. | | Isaac Asimov | |
| [I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. | | George Eliot | |
| [James, 40, played a bumbling suitor in the film] Hitch ... The King of Queens. | | Will Smith | |
| [Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt co-star in] The Mexican, ... a loose, low-budget, down-and-dirty, hand-held film | | Brad Pitt | |
| [Katrina has prompted Bush to make vaulting promises.] As we clear away the debris of a hurricane, let us also clear away the legacy of inequality, ... what a lot of Americans saw was ... some poverty that they had never imagined before, and we need to address that. | | George Washington | |
| [Knowles says,] A lot of people would bring up that, you know, (saying) 'You broke ... ' No, I did not break 'Batman and Robin.' The people who made 'Batman and Robin' broke 'Batman and Robin,' I just told a lot of people that it was a bad movie. | | Robin Williams | |
| [Lady Nancy Astor:] Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee. ... Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it. | | Winston Churchill | |
| [Many Founding Fathers wrote extensively on the subject. Thomas Jefferson said,] What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ... A free people ought to be armed. | | George Washington | |
| [Many upcoming Christian titles are along the lines of] The Bible Game, ... Left Behind: Eternal Forces. | | Bible | |
| [Many years ago, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen wrote a theological book in which he capitalized the word Hell. His editor corrected it by putting in a small] h. ... Because it's a real place! | | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| [McDonald's says that its DreamWorks partnership will create ads and promotions that appeal to all age groups, not just to children.] The appeal of McDonald's and the appeal of DreamWorks is very broad, ... It's families and it's adults. | | Walt Disney | |
| [Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing?] No intelligent designer, ... would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process. | | Daniel Dennett | |
| [My] deep religiosity... found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. | | Albert Einstein | |
| [Neil Young's lyrics from his 1988 hit] This Notes For You ... The Times They Are A Changing. | | Bob Dylan | |
| [NEW YORK - The ads for] Lennon, ... His words. His music. His story. | | John Lennon | |
| [Nonetheless, American officials traveling with Mr. Bush said that they wondered how successful the White House would be in allocating more reconstruction aid for Iraq now that the hurricane damage will soak up so many American resources.] It seems clear, ... that the days of American largess for Iraq are coming to a close. | | Barbara Bush | |
| [Noting that] there are nearly 40 million children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS, ... Nothing can shake me more than sight of these innocent young children suffering physically, socially and emotionally. | | Nelson Mandela | |
| [Noting the new digital camera would enable him to] finally catch up with the amateur consumer market, ... This is it. This is the revolution, and I'm in the middle of it. It's a great time to be alive. | | George Lucas | |
| [Nov. 30-Dec. 10:] Dirty Blonde ... I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde. | | Mae West | |
