I didn't get into skating to be famous.

I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.

Richard H. Davis

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Ray Bradbury

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

George Henry Lewes

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

Retief Goosen

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever

Thomas Jefferson

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

G. W. F. Hegel

Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.

William Gurstelle

I am ill at these numbers

William Shakespeare

Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

Rudyard Kipling

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

John Ruskin

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

George W. Bush