What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

Albert Einstein

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Albert Einstein

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

Walter Lippmann

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.

Andy Stern

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Walter Winchell

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Proverbs 13:19

Bible

Writing a novel is agony.

George Orwell

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Andy Warhol

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Mary Cassatt

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

Denis Diderot

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much

Diana Wynne Jones