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| [Shakespeare made good use of it in King Lear, Shelley once said of his mother that] on the subject of the weather she was irresistibly eloquent ... When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| [Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of] revelations ... I am accustomed to fanatics who get a funny look in the eye when they come to speak to me how about the Earl of Oxford or Marlowe really wrote the plays. She spoke rationally, and it's an intelligently readable book, but it floats way above the facts, as I told her. | | William Shakespeare | |
| [She said she learned at an early age] who were the good guys and who were the bad guys and who was going to pick on the weak. ... Sometimes its the people with the most power who are abusing it. | | George Washington | |
| [Smiley writes that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of] Uncle Tom?s Cabin, ... So this is the little lady who made this big war. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| [So what would Buddha do if a friend is abusing drugs?] When someone goes wrong, it is right for his real friends to move him, even by force, to do the right thing. ... Do not examine the limitations of others. Examine how you can change your own. | | Buddha | |
| [Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue. | | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| [Speaking on ABC's] This Week, ... said he was taking action to close down these offices and that he would restrict their ability to communicate. | | Colin Powell | |
| [Style is] that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. | | Robert Frost | |
| [Tapers, as I've said, I love you. Your cause is righteous. There is nothing wrong with offering audiophiles music in dense, memory-heavy formats that sound great when pumped through awesome speakers. But I implore you to make an effort to distribute your recordings in a medium of lesser fidelity, as well.] I think that if there's something you like, ... that you think ought to be there in a hundred years, deserves being part of the human heritage, you almost have a moral responsibility to see that it gets digitized and put in as many places as possible. | | John Perry Barlow | |
| [Teen-age graduates of the program sign a covenant] before God Almighty ... keep clear of sexual sin. | | Bible | |
| [That it's sometimes indistinguishable from misanthropy is a risk the A.V. Club is willing to take.] People are stupider than anybody, ... They ban 'Huckleberry Finn' because it has the word 'nigger' in it. That's just silly. But what can you do? Except kill those people. | | Tom Lehrer | |
| [That was the speech -- delivered under a banner reading] Mission Accomplished ... Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| [The album's closing track,] Always Taking Aim, ... a Greek chorus ... It just turned out to be a different kind of form: instrumental with vocal interjections of key things that were important for me to say. | | Burt Bacharach | |
| [The British pop star Robbie Williams launched his first album in two years this weekend with a high-tech concert in Berlin that was also shown live across Europe in select cinemas and on mobile phones. Williams beamed his 90-minute performance into 27 cinemas and nightclub venues in high-definition with surround sound technology in 11 countries. More than 100,000 mobile phone users also watched a live stream of the concert for the first time.] To everyone in the cinema and watching on your phones, this is the future, baby, and I'll see you next year, ... Intensive Care. | | Robbie Williams | |
| [The CD, on which Arroyo covers 12 rock tunes including Pearl Jam's Black and Stone Temple Pilots' Plush with guest guitarist Red Sox G.M. Theo Epstein and guest] vocalist ... respect for the audience's ears. | | Stephen King | |
| [The competition at the NASA Ames Research Center invited teams to take their best shot at creating the world's first] space elevator ... The Fountains of Paradise. | | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| [The ensemble also performed on National Public Radio's] A Prairie Home Companion ... You sounded like the Chicago Symphony and yet you're not crabby and grumpy like they are -- amazing! | | Garrison Keillor | |
| [The eruption of the flag controversy is a glaring symptom of a distressing change in American politics over the past decade: the way that pit-bull negative ads have led to simplistic, visceral posturing by candidates at the expense of more substantive approaches to real problems.] It's a good issue to define your opponent, ... If your opponent is for flag burning, he's got to go through a very sophisticated explanation. | | Ed Rollins | |
| [The five-member band produced its own videos, and the record label was sold on the digital-video-only option, he said.] It is sort of a leap of faith to the future, ... it feels good to be in the company of forward-thinking people. | | Sam Brown | |
| [The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't know whether you have abandoned your old principles or whether you ever had any. | | Thomas Paine | |
