The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

Geezer Butler

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

Maya Angelou

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson

I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.

Blanka Vlasic

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Peter Gallagher

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Catherine Deneuve

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Haruki Murakami

To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first

Albert Camus

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

Jane Austen