Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.

Denis Diderot

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

Ralph Ellison

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Lisa Loeb

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

Terry Pratchett

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

Neil Jordan

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

Bear Grylls

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Neil Gaiman

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Uma Thurman

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

Jet Li

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Carolyn Wells

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Gro Harlem Brundtland