Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Wernher Von Braun

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

Andy Garcia

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

Pele

Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

Democritus

Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

Chris Webber

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

Heraclitus

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Christopher Nolan

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Benjamin Tucker

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Albert Einstein

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

Mencius

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

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