The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Irving Langmuir

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

Bill Bryson

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Janet Fitch

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

Valentino Garavani

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

Ann Druyan

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Paul McCartney

History develops, art stands still.

E. M. Forster

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.

Victor Hugo

I love slow music.

Norah Jones

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

Jan Schakowsky

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Laurence J. Peter

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be

Creflo A. Dollar