Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

Rebecca Romijn

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maxwell Maltz

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Oscar Wilde

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

John Armstrong

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Fiona Shaw

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Carl Sagan

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

Joel Hodgson

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Leo Tolstoy

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.

Jimmy Carr

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Richard Powers

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Mark Twain