Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

Walt Whitman

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

Matthew Barney

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

Wilder Penfield, 1921

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Harold J. Smith

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright, "New York Ti

I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade.

Alan Seeger

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Charles Babbage

Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Jan Zamoiski

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

Jodi Picoult

Now, very few are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Robertson Davies