No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Josh Billings

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Adlai E. Stevenson

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

John Milton

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Jos

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Charles Darwin

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

E. O. Wilson

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

W. Clement Stone

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

C.S. Lewis

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.

Michel Hazanavicius