Here are some good quotes from people who passed away this year, published in TIME Magazine, dated January 2, 2006:
“I wasn’t tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
— Rosa Parks
“I live in racist America and I’m uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can’t do much better than that.”
— Richard Pryor
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.”
— Arthur Miller
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
— Johnnie Cochran
“The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.”
— Gen. William Westmoreland
“I’m not a slave to objectivity, because I’m never quite sure what it means. It means different things to different people.”
— Peter Jennings