The best quality tea must have creases like the leather boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Rudy Rucker

Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.Otani: What's that?Nakao: The whispering of your heart.

Heikichi Nakao Otani

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

Michael Weatherly

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

Mike Huckabee

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Etta James

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

Lindsay Lohan

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Brigitte Nielsen

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

Richard Peck

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Artie Lange