"What gets measured gets improved."

“What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.”

“Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.”

Source : Source: ncac.org

“I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'”

Source : "Delegates consider boycott of Kolbe speech" by Jeff Barker, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

“I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.”

“Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.”

“Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

“Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.”

“Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.”

Source : Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.12, Penguin