You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

Haruki Murakami

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

William Shakespeare

The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics.Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-alienscauseglobalwarming.html

Michael Crichton, Speech, Califo

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Horace

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

P. J. O'Rourke

Behind every painting is a secret and inexplicable desire. Behind mine is this:I want to make a painting that can tear a person in two. I want to make a painting that can make a person who has been torn in two whole again. I want them to be the same painting.

Clayton F. Merrell, Artist's Sta

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Abbie Hoffman

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

Catherine Deneuve

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted W. Engstrom

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

E. M. Forster

Love with pride is like chasing the pavement. There'll be a long chasing until it ends.

Dee Prathia

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke