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“Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.”
Source : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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“Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.”
Source : "Don King sounds off on boxing". "Crossfire" with James Carville and Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2002. 
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“I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.”
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“Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.”
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“In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.”
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“I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.”
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“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.”
