Quotations

"If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right to carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?"

— Al Sharpton, American political activist, born October 3, 1954

"You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police."

— Al Sharpton, American political activist, born October 3, 1954

"I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore."

— Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, born May 23, 1910

"Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijuana, and will expire on cocaine."

— Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, born May 23, 1910

"That's the clarinet I used to use, but it's just a piece of wood you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything."

— Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, died December 30, 2004

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, born July 26, 1856

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, born July 26, 1856

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, born July 26, 1856

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, born July 26, 1856

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, died November 2, 1950

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute."

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, died November 2, 1950

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."

— Ted Shawn, pioneer of American modern dance, born 1891

"A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships are for."

— John A. Shedd, American author, born 1928

"Would that there were an award for people come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough, and when you have enough, you have self-respect."

— Gail Sheehy, American author, journalist, author, born November 27, 1937