A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

Virginia Woolf

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

Kenneth G. Wilson

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Walter Gilbert

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

Carly Fiorina

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Wallace Stegner

When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.

Steve Maraboli

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

Magic Johnson

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Taylor Swift

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Arthur Murphy

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

Compay Segundo

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

General George Patton