The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Bruce Vento

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

Jeff Daniels

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

John Arbuthnot

Among the mouldering bones there was the head of a flaxen haired girl. One side of her face was well preserved, almost mummified. She must have been a beauty. But the other side of her face was all bone and a horrifying sight, not the sort of thing one likes to think about after.

Christopher Vokes

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

Jodi Picoult

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Yousuf Karsh

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Alexander Haig

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

William Van Horne

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Jennifer Lawrence