I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhaleand for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.

Milissa R. Bailey

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

William Godwin

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

Lillian Hellman

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Pliny the Elder

I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

Rachel Stevens

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibili

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Barbara Jordan

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

Ian Mcewan

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

John (Jay) Mccloy

All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote.

Kenneth Boulding