The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

John Cameron

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Philip Larkin

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Roy L. Hunt

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

Arabella Weir

You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.

Jean Baudrillard

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

Edward Hopper

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Alexander Woollcott

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Cassandra Clare

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

Calvin Klein

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

Jack Kingston

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

Terence