I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Golf is a game in which you yell "Fore!", shoot six, and write down five.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'Fore!', shoot six, and write down five.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.

I earnestly feel terrible for any mistakes at the bank.

They'll never forget, never forgive, no matter who the enemy is, son. Better just to start a new life. Be someone else.

Wing Chun is not a game; Its for survival.. for fighting.We don't hit and then wait. No wait.. Once we move, we dont give a chance.

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling.

I am not an enemy of Adventism.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

I honestly don't need much money. People love to buy me drinks. Hostesses love to feed me. Famous artists lavish me with expensive artworks, and heiresses do the same with jewels that I promptly lose.