„If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.“

„In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

On a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070510/asp/foreign/story_7758325.asp (9 May 2007)
2007

„Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one. Being a Hollywood beauty was a mixed blessing. Men are men, with all that testosterone, and when a pretty girl comes in front of them what can you expect? The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.“

—  Sophia Loren Italian actress 1934

As quoted in Bombshell (2004) by Lynda Curnyn, p. 196.

„That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives."

IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIVE AT ALL.“

—  Terry Pratchett, book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

„Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.“

—  Jennifer Donnelly, book Revolution

Source: Revolution

„The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

When you take your pill
it's like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside you.“

—  Richard Brautigan American novelist, poet, and short story writer 1935 - 1984

Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster

„Religion should be something you keep within the confines of your own head, and we should all recognize how pointless it is to try and make other people see the fairies that live in your brain.“

—  Ben Croshaw English video game journalist 1983

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7473-Extra-Punctuation-Videogames-as-Art.2
Other Articles

„[impersonating her mother] Now, Maria, if a boy doesn't like you, I would just like you to know that he is intimidated by your beauty, because you are the most beautiful girl in the whole world and if you would stop doing impersonations of me I think other people would see that…“

—  Maria Bamford American actress and comedian 1970

„People aren’t used to this in Kansas City. Get over it! It happens. It’s called life. You can’t think you’re too big that it’s not going to happen to you. It happens to everybody.“

—  Herm Edwards American football player, coach and analyst 1954

Edwards in a press conference after losing six consecutive games.
With Kansas City
Source: December 13, 2007, http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2007/12/11/herm_edwards_press_conference__1211/, Kansas City Chiefs - Herm Edwards Press Conference - 12/11, 13 December 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20071213163651/http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2007/12/11/herm_edwards_press_conference__1211/,

„Do you know what most people have from their grandmother? A tea set. Or a quilt.” Curran smiled. “If your family had a quilt, it would be made out of chimera skin and stuffed with feathers from dead angels.“

—  Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

„If the Conservative Party were your refrigerator, all your food would go bad. If it were your car or bicycle, you would be stranded by the side of the road. If it were your accountant, you would be bankrupt. If it were your lawyer, you would be in prison. If any consumer good, service or profession so consistently and predictably disappointed or failed in its ostensible main purpose, people would turn their backs on it. It would be overtaken, replaced and driven out of business by a better competitor.“

—  Peter Hitchens author, journalist 1951

From 'The Cameron Delusion' (2010)

„In the place I’m from you don’t have much room. You have the sea. If you step on the sea, you sink. The only thing the sea can do is take you away. People living on a tiny island are not expected to have deep thoughts about how they live, their right to live. You can have little conflicts, disagreements about what side of the street to walk on, but you cannot disagree that perhaps there should not be a street there. You cannot disagree about fundamental things, which is what an artist would do. All they’re left with is a kind of pastoral beauty, a kind of natural beauty, and wonderful trinkets…“

—  Jamaica Kincaid Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer 1949

On the limited opportunities in her country of origin in “Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?” https://www.guernicamag.com/does-truth-have-a-tone/ in Guernica (2013 Jun 17)

„[On the Tea Party:] I like it because their view of government is essentially the same as mine, and I like it because they're regular people who, but for the shock of Obama's radicalism, probably would not have gotten active in politics.“

—  John R. Bolton American lawyer and diplomat 1948

"The Man with the Mustache"

„Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.“

—  Sophia Loren Italian actress 1934

As quoted in Bombshell (2004) by Lynda Curnyn, p. 196.

„Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.“

—  Sophia Loren Italian actress 1934

„Today, people’s mood is very much like that: if the coffee is bitter they’re going to have a bad mood all day long. You could be having a perfect day and all of a sudden you get fired. And that’s it. there goes your beautiful day. Maybe they’ve had a beautiful life all life long, and then something will happen that will completely devastate them. But, you can go beyond all that to have something that’s permanent, to have something that is a true experience, to have an experience of yourself, to have an experience of what makes you alive.“

—  Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957

Sao Paulo, Brazil, January 30, 1980
1980s

„We’re very lucky. You know, we have lots of things that we are very fortunate to have. You know, we have a house, you know? We have, you know, all these sort of nice things around us. And so, you know, we’re grateful for that because so many people don’t have that. We have, you know, relative stability and stuff like that. And, you know, lots of things that, you know, everyone would, you know, love to have.“

—  Prince William, Duke of Cambridge a member of the British royal family 1982

Response to the question "What’s the coolest thing about being a prince?" in an interview with Matt Lauer of NBC News, as quoted in FishbowlNY (15 June 2007) http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/whats-the-coolest-thing-about-being-a-prince_b5228

„Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. Our pitch is a bit like that. From the top it's a disgrace but the ball rolls at normal speed.“

—  José Mourinho Portuguese association football player and manager 1963

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/7004282.stm
Chelsea FC

„And just like this, all of a sudden, your people and mine will begin to talk?" "It only looks sudden from some places. Running off a cliff is sudden if you don't know it's there, even if you have been running toward it for days." "That's not a reassuring metaphor.“

—  John Barnes, book Earth Made of Glass

"It isn't meant to be."
Earth Made of Glass (1998)

„A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing … You come to a point where you have sung, more or less … your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.“

—  Cat Stevens British singer-songwriter 1948

On leaving the music business in 1979,in an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning (12 August 2007) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/30/sunday/main2221286.shtml
Context: A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing … You come to a point where you have sung, more or less … your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. You know, up until that point, I hadn't had a life. I'd been searching, been on the road.