"I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery." — Peter O’Toole, Irish actor, died December 14, 2013
"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie." — Al Pacino, American film and stage actor, born April 25, 1940
"No one I have ever heard of has ever died in the middle of writing a poem, just as birds never die in mid-flight." — Ron Padgett, American poet, essayist, fiction writer, born June 17, 1942
"I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing." — Jimmy Page, English musician, born January 9, 1944
"The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good." — Jimmy Page, English musician, born January 9, 1944
"What we call chaos are patterns we haven't recognized. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we call random are just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t decipher we call gibberish." — Chuck Pahlaniuk, American novelist, born February 21, 1962
"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." — Satchel Paige, American baseball player, born July 7, 1906
"In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion." — Thomas Paine, English-American activist, born 1776
"Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavored to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us." — Thomas Paine, English-American activist, born 1776
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot." — Thomas Paine, English-American activist, born 1776
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." — Thomas Paine, English-American activist, born 1776
"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world." — Grace Paley, American poet, died August 22, 2007
"Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible." — Grace Paley, American poet, born December 11, 1922
"Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future." — Michael Palin, English comedian, born 1943