Rod Serling Quotes American - Writer December 25, 1924 - June 28, 1975 There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on. Rod Serling There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. Rod Serling There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. Rod Serling It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. Rod Serling Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. Rod Serling Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. Rod Serling It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. Rod Serling Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. Rod Serling Carlos Castaneda Quotes American - Writer December 25, 1931 - April 27, 1998 All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart! Carlos Castaneda We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe. Carlos Castaneda To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that. Carlos Castaneda Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use. Carlos Castaneda We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic. Carlos Castaneda A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. Carlos Castaneda The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that. Carlos Castaneda A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows. Carlos Castaneda The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. Carlos Castaneda Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there! Carlos Castaneda Anne Roiphe Quotes Journalist Born: December 25, 1935 Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. Anne Roiphe A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. Anne Roiphe I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have. Anne Roiphe We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be. Anne Roiphe Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. Anne Roiphe When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America. Anne Roiphe Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people. Anne Roiphe I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world. Anne Roiphe You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note. Anne Roiphe I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules. Anne Roiphe I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days. Anne Roiphe I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents. Anne Roiphe Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both. Anne Roiphe I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds. Anne Roiphe If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. Anne Roiphe You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else. Anne Roiphe Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does. Anne Roiphe Jimmy Buffett Quotes American - Musician Born: December 25, 1946 Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been. Jimmy Buffett Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. Jimmy Buffett Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off. Jimmy Buffett If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane. Jimmy Buffett Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. Jimmy Buffett I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age. Jimmy Buffett If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane. Jimmy Buffett I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then. Jimmy Buffett Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke. Jimmy Buffett I sell escapism. Jimmy Buffett Indecision may or may not be my problem. Jimmy Buffett Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. Jimmy Buffett It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad. Jimmy Buffett If life gives you limes, make margaritas. Jimmy Buffett There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry. Jimmy Buffett Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. Jimmy Buffett These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks. Jimmy Buffett People who think too much before they act don't act too much. Jimmy Buffett We are the people our parents warned us about. Jimmy Buffett Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy. Jimmy Buffett If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. Jimmy Buffett It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal. Jimmy Buffett And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively. Jimmy Buffett To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. Jimmy Buffett Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. Jimmy Buffett Quitting doesn't enter my mind. Jimmy Buffett I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn. Jimmy Buffett And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else. Jimmy Buffett You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down. Jimmy Buffett I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. Jimmy Buffett My mother insisted that her children read. Jimmy Buffett Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. Jimmy Buffett At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it. Jimmy Buffett I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up. Jimmy Buffett I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid. Jimmy Buffett The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out. Jimmy Buffett I'm a big follower and reactor to weather. Jimmy Buffett And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them. Jimmy Buffett Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well. Jimmy Buffett

Jean Toomer Quotes American - Author December 26, 1894 - March 30, 1967 We learn t he rope of life by untying its knots. Jean Toomer Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. Jean Toomer People mistake their limitations for high standards. Jean Toomer The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. Jean Toomer Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it. Jean Toomer No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. Jean Toomer I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. Jean Toomer Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. Jean Toomer Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. Jean Toomer Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. Jean Toomer Alejo Carpentier Quotes Cuban - Novelist December 26, 1904 - April 24, 1980 The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle. Alejo Carpentier Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles. Alejo Carpentier I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner. Alejo Carpentier I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. Alejo Carpentier Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent. Alejo Carpentier From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith. Alejo Carpentier I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists. Alejo Carpentier Elizabeth David Quotes British - Writer December 26, 1913 - May 22, 1992 Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle. Elizabeth David Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult. Elizabeth David I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends. Elizabeth David I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again. Elizabeth David An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out. Elizabeth David Steve Allen Quotes American - Entertainer December 26, 1921 - October 30, 2000 Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar. Steve Allen Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. Steve Allen One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. Steve Allen Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. Steve Allen If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow. Steve Allen If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war. Steve Allen The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake. Steve Allen Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. Steve Allen In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. Steve Allen Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics. Steve Allen I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind. Steve Allen Richard Artschwager Quotes American - Artist December 26, 1923 - February 9, 2013 My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life. Richard Artschwager There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction. Richard Artschwager I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists. Richard Artschwager The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do. Richard Artschwager Alan King Quotes American - Comedian December 26, 1927 - May 9, 2004 There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust. Alan King When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day. Alan King I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want. Alan King Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn. Alan King I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit. Alan King My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins. Alan King I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special. Alan King When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted. Alan King Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? Alan King That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about. Alan King It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback. Alan King I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice. Alan King Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. Alan King You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. Alan King The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life. Alan King Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.' Alan King And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them. Alan King A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat! Alan King My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews. Alan King My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.' Alan King We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke. Alan King If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. Alan King Modesty is not one of my virtues. Alan King Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it. Alan King You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine. Alan King My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails. Alan King I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify. Alan King As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father. Alan King Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom. Alan King If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something. Alan King Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party. Alan King Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.' Alan King I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy. Alan King There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.' Alan King The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage. Alan King When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about. Alan King My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living. Alan King Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach. Alan King Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business. Alan King I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me. Alan King One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.' Alan King Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank. Alan King Smoked salmon is for dinner. Belly lox is for breakfast. Don't get that mixed up. Alan King I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor. Alan King I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going. Alan King My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy. Alan King My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.' Alan King I was a high school throw-out. Alan King Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom. Alan King Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny. Alan King As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself. Alan King Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context. Alan King If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. Alan King My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating. Alan King When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books. Alan King

Woodrow Wilson Quotes American - President December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924 You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Woodrow Wilson There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Woodrow Wilson Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. Woodrow Wilson The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. Woodrow Wilson America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. Woodrow Wilson The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. Woodrow Wilson If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. Woodrow Wilson The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. Woodrow Wilson I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. Woodrow Wilson You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. Woodrow Wilson The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. Woodrow Wilson I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. Woodrow Wilson The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. Woodrow Wilson There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Woodrow Wilson t In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. Woodrow Wilson A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Woodrow Wilson One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Woodrow Wilson The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. Woodrow Wilson Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. Woodrow Wilson America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. Woodrow Wilson Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. Woodrow Wilson The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. Woodrow Wilson Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. Woodrow Wilson Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. Woodrow Wilson At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. Woodrow Wilson If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. Woodrow Wilson Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. Woodrow Wilson Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. Woodrow Wilson Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. Woodrow Wilson The seed of revolution is repression. Woodrow Wilson Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. Woodrow Wilson Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. Woodrow Wilson Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. Woodrow Wilson What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. Woodrow Wilson I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. Woodrow Wilson If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. Woodrow Wilson America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. Woodrow Wilson So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. Woodrow Wilson As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. Woodrow Wilson My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. Woodrow Wilson A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. Woodrow Wilson I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. Woodrow Wilson There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. Woodrow Wilson When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. Woodrow Wilson My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. Woodrow Wilson The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. Woodrow Wilson Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. Woodrow Wilson We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. Woodrow Wilson If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. Woodrow Wilson He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. Woodrow Wilson By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all. Woodrow Wilson Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. Woodrow Wilson I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. Woodrow Wilson Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. Woodrow Wilson Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. Woodrow Wilson The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. Woodrow Wilson Arthur Eddington Quotes British - Scientist December 28, 1882 - November 22, 1944 We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. Arthur Eddington Something unknown is doing we don't know what. Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. Arthur Eddington Who will observe the observers? Arthur Eddington The mathematics is not there till we put it there. Arthur Eddington Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. Arthur Eddington It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. Arthur Eddington It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. Arthur Eddington It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. Arthur Eddington If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. Arthur Eddington We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.' Arthur Eddington Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight. Arthur Eddington We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. Arthur Eddington Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo. Arthur Eddington The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world. Arthur Eddington Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. Arthur Eddington We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. Arthur Eddington It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. Arthur Eddington It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them. Arthur Eddington

Ted Danson Quotes American - Actor Born: December 29, 1947 I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.' Ted Danson Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story. Ted Danson Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends. Ted Danson My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine. Ted Danson The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals. Ted Danson Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark! Ted Danson Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy. Ted Danson I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation. Ted Danson I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy. Ted Danson I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy. Ted Danson If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche. Ted Danson To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life. Ted Danson You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. Ted Danson Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. Ted Danson A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. Ted Danson The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable. Ted Danson My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. Ted Danson Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get. Ted Danson Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. Ted Danson To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child. Ted Danson Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. Ted Danson If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. Ted Danson When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. Ted Danson We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. Ted Danson 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley. Ted Danson We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet. Ted Danson I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise. Ted Danson We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. Ted Danson The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. Ted Danson You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. Ted Danson We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work. Ted Danson We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. Ted Danson I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it. Ted Danson How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. Ted Danson I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level. Ted Danson One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series. Ted Danson One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor. Ted Danson The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. Ted Danson Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves. Ted Danson I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian. Ted Danson I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh. Ted Danson I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI. Ted Danson I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water. Ted Danson My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys. Ted Danson I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire. Ted Danson You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid. Ted Danson Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers. Ted Danson You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.' Ted Danson To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you. Ted Danson I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts. Ted Danson When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them. Ted Danson My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months. Ted Danson My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years. Ted Danson I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you. Ted Danson I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done. Ted Danson I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him. Ted Danson I eat less, stretch, and work out. Ted Danson I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention. Ted Danson I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff. Ted Danson I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers. Ted Danson California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world. Ted Danson One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever. Ted Danson I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work. Ted Danson I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. Ted Danson My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. Ted Danson Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. Ted Danson My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. Ted Danson I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified. Ted Danson I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life. Ted Danson I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar. Ted Danson My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work. Ted Danson You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear. Ted Danson I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill. Ted Danson