"Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man."

“When you stop learning you stop growing.”

Source : Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.29, David C Cook

“Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.”

Source : "Fictional character: Judge Judy". "Judge Judy", www.imdb.com. (1996-).

“I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.”

Source : "MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: GOP Wants to Go Back to When No Women Voted, 'Slavery Was Cool'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. September 23, 2011.

“Loving families value effort as much as success.”

“I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.”

Source : Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.166, Spiegel & Grau

“And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.”

“The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.”

Source : "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood". Book by Eileen Whitfield, 1997.