Courage is a kind of salvation.

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

Haldan Keffer Hartline

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

Bryan White

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Jimmy Carl Black

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

W. Somerset Maugham

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Bertrand Russell

The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.

Owen Davies

I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

Jasmine Tookes

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Gore Vidal, "quoted in Sunday Ti

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

Charles Monroe Schulz

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Charles Spurgeon

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

Jon Fishman