I have never taken drugs in my life.
- Tamil film star Trisha Krishnan

Source: Times of India

Never too late, sweetie.

What’s life without a few highs!

Why are you ever in a hurry? A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry, because he knows that whatever he does in a hurry, he must necessarily do very ill. He may be in haste to dispatch an affair, but he will care not to let that haste hinder his doing it well. Little minds are in a hurry, when the object proves (as it commonly does) too big for them; they run, they hare, they puzzle, confound, and perplex themselves; they want to do everything at once, and never do it at all. But a man of sense takes the time necessary for doing the thing he is about, well; and his haste to dispatch a business only appears by the continuity of his application to it: he pursues it with a cool steadiness, and finishes it before he begins any other.

Lord Chesterfield – Letters to His Son P. 374

Every man is a wolf to me.

- Kaspar Hauser in Werner Herzog’s award-winning German film Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Source: New York Times, August 15, 2010 P.22

By the way, Bruno Schleinstein (popularly known as Bruno S.), who played the character of

For as long as we can remember, we’ve been under the spell of eloquent writers and speakers.

And Bartlett’s was our vade mecum, a book we repeatedly borrowed from our local library.

On good days and on bad days, we dipped into the heavy tome to great delight.

So when we saw favorable reviews of the Yale Book of Quotations a few years ago, we promptly decided to plonk down some $$ for the book.

And not one moment over the last couple of years have we regretted shelling out $50 for this 1,067-page tome.

Politicians, writers, sports figures, movie stars, religious leaders, criminals, freedom-fighters, artists and an endless array of colorful characters enliven these pages with their witty, profound, sad and sometimes, even, silly sayings.

The book is littered with quote-gems.

Here are a few of them:

Henry Miller:
U.S. writer

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

Lord Chesterfield:
On sex

The pleasure is momentary, the position is ridiculous, and the expense is damnable.

Mae West:
Hollywood actress

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

It’s not the men in my life that counts – it’s the life in my men.

When I’m good, I’m very, very good. But when I’m bad, I’m better.

Helen Gurley Brown:
U.S. journalist

Good girls go to heaven – bad girls go everywhere.

John Fortescue:
English judge ca. 1394-ca.1476

I should, indeed, prefer twenty guilty men to escape death through mercy, than one innocent to be condemned unjustly.

Mahatma Gandhi:

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

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Science flies you to the Moon. Islam flies you into buildings.

Source – Somewhere on the Internet Internut

Der Spiegel: You could have started a company in Silicon Valley and lived in a home in Palo Alto with a swimming pool. Why did you decide to do the WikiLeaks project instead?

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have, and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

Source:  Spiegel Online