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"The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination."

"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."

"I never enjoyed working in a film."

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."

"History is philosophy teaching by example."

"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

"The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion."

"That's the nature of research - you don't know what in hell you're doing."

"The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec."

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."

"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

"Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord."

"A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?"

"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right."

"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks."

"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food."

"He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery."

"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."

"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."

"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence."

"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."

"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be."

"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."