A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.

Piers Paul Read

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Ralph Bunche

hubris, n.Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

David Levithan

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

Tyrese Gibson

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

Emma Roberts

.. art and life are no longer separate domains....The word 'art' no longer has anything to say to us. In place of that, we (= De Stijl) insist upon the construction of our surroundings according to creative laws, deriving from a fixed principle.

Theo van Doesburg

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Garrison Keillor

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

William Christopher

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Thomas Carlyle

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Milan Kundera

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Edgar Allan Poe