So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner. -Cliff Richard-

I’m just glad it will be Clark Gable who is falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -Gary Cooper (deciding not to take the leading role in “Gone With The Wind”)-

This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is, inherently, of no value. -Western Union internal memo, 1876-

Who wants to hear actors talk? -H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927-

So long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. -Robert Louis Stevenson-

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. -Siddha Nagarjuna-

How long will it be before … the man sitting in London will see all things passing in Asia, or whenever it pleases him or an agent to turn a mirror on a view? It will be. Or how long before the discovery of cheap and perfect aerial navigation will change society and annihilate national distinctions? That, too, will be. These and a thousand stranger discoveries will during the ensuing century burst upon the world, changing it utterly. -Charles Godfrey Leland, Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling (1891)-

Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied words, with little or no meaning, have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance, and hindrance of true knowledge. -John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (1690)-

The trouble with political correctness is not that it leads to totalitarian forms of thought control, as its critics on the right maintain. The trouble with political correctness is that it is too easily learned; it can create a veneer of civility and make us think that things are getting better when, in fact, they are getting worse. -Alan Rutkowski, Toronto “Globe and Mail” 8 February 1995-

Easy divorce does not lessen marriage responsibility. -Anna Garlin Spencer in “The Family and its Members”-