Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

Tommy Hilfiger

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

Joseph Brodsky

There's the Hollywood sign there's Griffith Observatory there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.

Robert Crais

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Oliver Cromwell

The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.

Proverb

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

Jim Al-Khalili

The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.

Steven Pinker

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Jesus Christ

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates