I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

Benjamin Franklin

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Jennifer E. Smith

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

James Thurber

What is possible is our highest duty.

William E. Mclaren

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

John Dryden

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.

Daina Chaviano

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

John Grisham

And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Harvey Korman

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Debi Thomas