Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities [Michael Moore].

Christopher Hitchens

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

Joel Osteen

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.

Stephen Richards

Abandon all hope, you who enter here!

Dante Alighieri

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

Walt Whitman

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted.

Erica Jong

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Doris Lessing

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.

Gottfried Helnwein