The Beauty which old Greece or Rome Sung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

Alex Trebek

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Gianfranco Ferre

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Hermann Broch

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Steve Jobs

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

William Robertson Smith

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Simone Weil

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

Emily Dickinson

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

Samuel Johnson

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Sir Walter Scott

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Aesop