Ciba Insurance Quotes & Sayings

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation. — Lyndon B. Johnson

But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they've not heard. And if you put an album out, just consider that material gone. At least that's how I see it. — Patton Oswalt

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it? — David Herbert Donald

There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. — Margaret Atwood

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important. — Michael Tilson Thomas

Timing has a lot to with art. — LL Cool J

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once. — Horace Smith

I got divorced, after having been married for almost eight years. That is a very life-altering experience. There's a period of time that you go through, where you're having to adjust to knowing yourself and knowing who you are from being a couple to being an individual again. — Jenna Fischer

Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them. — Raymond Carver

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst. — Mark Billingham

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise. — Erika Johansen

The life of the mind is inappropriate in America now. Don't ever say anything unusual--unless the organization has approved it beforehand. Follow the rules. Be afraid. Be careful. Be a very good boy or girl. — Ryan Blacketter

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. — Ellsworth Huntington