"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"Hemingway was a jerk." - Harold Robbins
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things." - Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?" - Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?" - A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday." - Woody Allen (1935-)
"I don't feel good." - The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." - Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant." - Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television." - Gore Vidal
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen (1935-)
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually." - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." - Charles William Stubbs
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses." - George Santayana (1863-1952)
"Imitation is the sincerest form of television." - Fred Allen (1894-1956)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"Why don't you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
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