A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Richard Rorty

As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Love is the most beautiful thing that can happen to someone. No one can explain that feeling and desires engrossing a person preparing to give their heart to someone.

Natalie Ansard

I'm not a romantic.

Jack Kevorkian

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Edmund Husserl

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Thomas S. Kuhn

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

Meg Whitman

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

Gary Becker

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky