"People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable."

“Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.”

Source : Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

“The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.”

“BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.”

“You can find out a lot sitting in the barber's.”

“Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.”

“An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.”

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”

“I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.