Tom Brokaw

"It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. "

Peter Jennings

"As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits. "

Marie Colvin

"...I just wanted to see what was happening firsthand. That doesn't seem to be a very male or female notion, just a commitment to what all journalists should be doing -- trying to find out the truth for ourselves."

Dan Rather

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth". "

Martha Gellhorn

"Limit yourself to what you see and hear. Do not suppress and do not invent."

Meg Griffin, Family Guy

"Lois: And you know what? I'm gonna take that chance my father never let me take when I was younger. I'm gonna become a model!
Peter: Hey, that's fantastic, Lois! And I'll pleasure myself to your photos.
Chris: Me too!
Meg: Me too!
Peter: Oh! Oh! God! Meg! That's sick! That's your mother!
Meg (shrugs): I'm just trying to fit in.
Peter: Get out! Get out of this house!
(Meg doesn't move. Peter punches wall.)
Peter: I SAID GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE NOW!
(Meg runs out and Peter closes the door.)
Peter: That's a good about your modeling, Lois. "

Lois Griffin, Family Guy

"(Lois finds a note in Chris's pocket)
Lois: Huh, what's this? You know Stewie, Mommy doesn't usually read things out of Chris's pocket. She's more respectful than that.
Stewie: Whatever helps you sleep at night, bitch."

Peter Griffin, Family Guy

"Peter (when he's hungover): This sucks worse than that time I went to that museum. (Flashback to childhood, standing in museum looking at dinosaur
skeltons.)
Peter (as a child): Why did all the dinosaurs die out?
Man at Museum: Because you touch yourself at night."

Glen Quagmire, Family Guy

"Peter: Hey hey I got an idea. Lets play "I Never." You got to drink if you did the thing that the person says they never did.
Cleveland: Oh I got one, I never slept with a women with the lights on.
(They all drink.)
Joe: I'll go next, uh I never had sex with Cleveland's wife.
(Quagmire and Cleveland drink.)
Peter: alright lets see uh, I never did a chick in a Logan airport bathroom.
(Only Quagmire drinks.)
****About 33 drinks later****
Peter: God lets see what else is there um...I never gave a reach-around to a spider monkey while reciting the Pledge of Alligence.
Quagmire: Oh God.
(Quagmire takes a drink.)
Joe: I uh I never picked up an illegal alien at Home Depot to take home a choke me while I touch myself.
Quagmire: Oh come on!
(Quagmire drinks again.)
Peter: I never did the same thing except with someone from Joann Fabrics.
Quagmire: Oh God this is ridiculous. You guys suck! (Drinks more and passes out.)"

Stewie Griffin, Family Guy

"Stewie (to one of the prostitutes at Cleveland's house): So, is there any tread left on the tires? Or at this point would it be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway?"

Matt Groening

"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."

Matt Groening

"I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top."

Matt Groening

"Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention."

Matt Groening

"It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have."

Matt Groening

"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems."

John F. Kennedy

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. "

Thomas Jefferson

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."

George Washingtom

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

Gerald R. Ford

"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. "

Abraham Lincoln

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."

Stephen Colbert

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' "

Jon Stewart

"I feel your scorn and I accept it. "

Tiki Barber

"We are news-fused world. We like to know. We want to know."

Aaliyah

"I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them. "

Zach Braff

"The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters."

Missy Elliot

"Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. "

Jet Li

"Love is more powerful than kicking ass."

Martina Sprague & Keith Livingston, Black Belt, February 2001

"Fighting is like playing chess. To win, you must have a strategy and an arsenal of weapons. In chess, your strategy helps you deploy your men in a logical manner. In fighting, your strategy enables you to evaluate your position relative to your opponent's and calculate your strength relative to his."

Carl Lewis

"The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. "

Charlotte Hall, managing editor Newsday , Mellville, NY

"Don't underestimate Americans' endless curiosity about the world."

Michael Johnson

"They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down. "

Michael Johnson

"I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people. "

Michael Johnson

"They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody. "

Michael Johnson

"The only one who can beat me is me. "

Michael Johnson

"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed, Rocky

"Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make ya grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. "

Jesse Ventura as Blain, Predator

"I ain't got time to bleed."

Team Guy Motto, Naruto Shippudden

"Stronger than the you of yesterday."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself."

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. "

Roy Mustang, Full Metal Alchemist

"Nothing is perfect because life isn't perfect, and that's what makes it so beautiful."

Julius Caesar

"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. "

Joseph Stalin

"I trust no one, not even myself. "

Bucky Kat, Get Fuzzy: 21 August 2007

"One cannot see words... One cannot touch them... They neither breathe nor feel the warmth of the sun, but truly they out live flesh and blood!"

Edward Elric, Full Metal Alchemist

"To all my friends and those that I love:
I'm sorry but this is the path I've chosen."

George Washington

"A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master."

Adolf Hitler

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."

Rob Wilco, Get Fuzzy: 22 August 2007

"One shouldn't seek respect through words, only through actions."

Benjamin Franklin

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. "

Confucius

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart. "

Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

Confucius

"When anger rises, think of the consequences. "

Confucius

"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? "

Confucius

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

Confucius

"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. "

Confucius

"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. "

Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. "

Confucius

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. "

Confucius

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. "

Confucius

"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. "

Confucius

" To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. "

Confucius

"The cautious seldom err."

Confucius

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.
In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Confucius

"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."

Confucius

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Confucius

"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. "

Confucius

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays. "

Confucius

"If we don't know life, how can we know death?"

Confucius

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

Confucius

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. "

Confucius

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

Plato

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."

Aristotle

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."

Obito Uchiha, Naruto

"Those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called filth, but those who don't care about their companions... are even lower than filth."

Edward Elric, Full Metal Alchemist

"Teacher told us to train the mind, you have to train the body."

Hachigen "Hachi" Ushouda, Bleach

"And remember, it doesn't matter what people say you should be. What's important is how you want to be."

Inu Yasha, Inu Yasha

"Somehow, without knowing it, it feels so natural with her [Kagome] here."

Kenshin Himura, Ruroni Kenshin

"You can die at any time. Living on is what really takes courage."

Mahatma Ghandi

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

Mahatma Ghandi

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Mahatma Ghandi

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Mahatma Ghandi

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

Mahatma Ghandi

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

Optimus Prime, Transformers

"At the end of the day, one of us shall stand and the other shall fall."

Witwicky Family Saying, Transformers

"No sacrifice. No victory."

Ephesians 6: 10-11; 16-17

"Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. ... In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming arrows. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."

God, Futurama

-"Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do."

-"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

Scar, Full Metal Alchemist

"If you receive pain, you can sleep. If you inflict pain, you cannot sleep."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he(/she) wants to do it."

Lao Tzu

"Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves."

Hooters: Favorite Sayings

"Opportunity may only knock once... but temptation raps for years."

Frankie Lymon

"Why do fools fall in love?"

Admiral William Halsey

"Hit fast. Hit hard. Hit often."

William Faulkner

"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'"

A Random Bumper Sticker

"Not all people who wander are lost."