It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Henry David Thoreau

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

John Ruskin

You gotta want it.

Bill Murray

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

John Donne

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

Joshua Lederberg

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my trothfor our love is whole;her breath is my wine,her scent is my soul.

Roman Payne

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

Speech is the small change of silence.

George Meredith

The poet felt completely free now as he stood there on the deck in his collar and boots, sailing past new and ever newer districts; even if he did not own this land's resources, he owned its beauty.

Halldór Laxness

All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.

Charles Dickens

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith