Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

William Lloyd

My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'

J. R. Martinez

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

Ernest Hemingway

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

Frederick Reines

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

Simon Newcomb

What has been is what it seems will be unless we can break our conditioning by realizing our conditioning. That's the only way we can break free from the cycle of history.

James Dye

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Margaret Mead

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Virginia Woolf

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Jim Butcher

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Blaise Pascal

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Martin Mull