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“If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.”
Source : "DVD-copy program tweaked after court order", CNN.com, February 23, 2004.
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“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.”
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“A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.”
Source : Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1898). “The Outlook”
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“There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.”
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“Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.”
Source : "Lavender Diamond Seeks World Peace". Interview with Jake Coyle, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2007.
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“At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.”
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“For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.”
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“None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.”