The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

Rebecca Skloot

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

Neil Gaiman

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

Carson Daly

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

Tippi Hedren

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Helen Clark

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Alexander Smith

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Aldo Leopold

Smartass Disciple: If you are really a master, then make me see miracles!Master of Stupidity: Go to sleep and dream, then wake up thirty years later!

Toba Beta

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Ben Kingsley

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Susana Martinez