“Misty: Benjamin Franklin is on the $100 bill sir. Scarfe: So? He wasn't a president! Misty: That's even more impressive! Come on, give the man some credit.”— Cheo Hodari Coker, Misty Knight, Simone Missick, imdb.com
“The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine....He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to 'seize the day'. Still sometim…”— Krista Vernoff, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“The French worshipped [Benjamin] Franklin as an Enlightenment god whose famous kite-flying experiment debunked superstition by proving that lightning was nothing more than electricity.”— Larry Flynt, amazon.com
“By the age of 42, Ben Franklin was America's first media mogul, with his own news network, and so rich that he could retire in 1747 to concentrate on the passions that would make him famous: inventions, science experiments, politics and women.”— Larry Flynt, amazon.com