She sells seashells on the sea shore. The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure. And if she sells seashells on the sea shore, Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

Why do you cry, Willy? Why do you cry? Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why?

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Betty Botter bought some butter. But she said the butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood?

I scream, you scream, We all scream for ice cream.

There was a fisherman named Fisher who fished for some fish in a fissure. Till a fish with a grin, pulled the fisherman in. Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

Wayne went to wales to watch walruses

If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines

Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

A brave captain is as a root out of which as branches the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

Mirrors don't lie. They only show a part of truth. A broken mirror can enlarge a face up to a dimension of a small planet. A problem of reflection? A point of view.

I love dark chocolate, but I will have a piece just occasionally.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Don't go it alone - you won't make it.

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

In social, you have to innovate in information. If you have the same thing as everyone else, you're just not interesting.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens and the stars are all real but not so damned real you see.