A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

Oscar Wilde

One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Lord Chesterfield

?By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

Michio Kaku

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Samuel Goldwyn

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Brigitte Bardot

And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.

Clare Short

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Joey Adams

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Janet Jackson

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Hamlin Garland

The happiness of society is the end of government.

John Adams

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.

Gary Oldman

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Patrick J. Kennedy