I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

Ian Mckellen

This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Bertrand Russell

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

Valentina Tereshkova

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

Clara Zetkin

Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brickwallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only onewho knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, Go ahead, touchit... It feels real.

Steven Wright

Advice is the smallest current coin.

Ambrose Bierce

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Khalil Gibran

I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.

David Friedman

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans they have to be self-reliant.

Scott Cook

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

David Rudisha

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

Jane Austen

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Francis Bacon