"I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work."
-- Gregory Hines, 1946 - 2003.

"Gays are the only people left who want to get married."
-- Bill Maher

"My dentist made all the difference in my confidence. At the age where everything is falling or fading, I know that my teeth are just dazzling."
-- Kathie Lee Gifford

"Smile when you are ready."
-- Fortune Cookie

"The rat infestation is very significant, and Mayor Bloomberg is not taking it as serious as he should be."
-- Christine Quinn, Councilwoman

"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."
-- Joseph Conrad

"Please! Don't make me think!"
-- Carolyn Collins Stoddard, as played by Nancy Barrett, on Dark Shadows.

"Revenge is a killer. Depression, unhappiness, resentment, anger, they're robbers. We have to bar the door of our thought against them. These are evils. They will rob you of joy. Joy is aliveness. It's vitality, vigor, it's a tonic. It's a life force. It's healing. Tell yourself that this day is a gift."
-- Cindy Adams

"Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of em!"
-- Carson Kressley, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, on Bravo.

'What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It's for the superfluous we sweat."
-- Seneca, Roman Playwrite

"I am calling for us to take back our lives and culture and to stop spreading the virus. I am calling for us to resist the normalization of disease and once again embrace health. I'm calling for an end to the false advertising for drugs and for us to stop minimizing the infection with cute little names like 'the gift' or 'the bug.' I want to see an ad campaign showing a sexy man saying: I don't have H.I.V. I don't want to waste my life and resources on drugs. I am taking charge of my body, my health and my destiny. I am a negative gay role model."
-- Harvey Fierstein, op-ed piece titled The Culture of Disease , in The New York Times

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends."
-- Bob Hope, 1903-2003

"We teach people how to treat us."
-- Dr. Phil McGraw

"Three U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday while guarding a Baquouba children’s hospital northeast of Baghad bringing the number of U.S. troops killed in combat to 161 — 14 more than the 1991 Gulf War total."
-- News Report, Fox News

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."
-- M.G. Siriam, from QuoteGarden

"You can't change what you don't acknowledge."
-- Dr. Phil McGraw, Life Strategies

"So far, more than 40 U.S. troops have been killed in hostile fire since May 1, when President Bush declared major combat operations in Iraq to be over."
-- Voice of America News

"Issues of principle aside, the invasion of a country that hadn't attacked us and didn't pose an imminent threat has seriously weakened our military position. Of the Army's 33 combat brigades, 16 are in Iraq; this leaves us ill prepared to cope with genuine threats. Moreover, military experts say that with almost two-thirds of its brigades deployed overseas, mainly in Iraq, the Army's readiness is eroding: normal doctrine calls for only one brigade in three to be deployed abroad, while the other two retrain and refit... To top it all off, our insistence on launching a war without U.N. approval has deprived us of useful allies. George Bush claims to have a "huge coalition," but only 7 percent of the coalition soldiers in Iraq are non-American — and administration pleas for more help are sounding increasingly plaintive."
-- Paul Krugman, The New York Times

"Listen to the song of life."
-- Charles Dudley Warner