The best way to stay away from drama is to stop adding…

Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley…

— Mark Steyn

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

— Mark Twain

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

— Brian Blessed

The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people…

— Philip French

It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;…

— Homer Bone

The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to…

— Lee Kuan Yew

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice,

— Richard M. Nixon

If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and…

— Bjorn Lomborg

You could pay a fair market price for a barrel of oil and cut 50 cents a barrel or a dollar barrel off what…

— Eric Bolling

In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

— Abhinav Bindra

In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is…

— David Stockman

For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors…

— Alex Berenson