The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

The first presentation of my show was given in May 1883 at Omaha which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour visiting practically every important city in the country.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

And the funny thing is I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

When I was in jail I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous wants to be famous is famous has been married to someone famous worked with someone famous slept with someone famous been blackmailed by someone famous.

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

If all Church power vests in the clergy then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them and work to get to know them a little it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels primarily oil.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education started to learn then went on the pill the whole thing and so there are today a lot more women writers editors producers and so a lot more women's stories. God the BBC's practically run by women.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death what chance have I got? Practically none.

My father's death my move and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress pain and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.