In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Raymond Chandler

Sloth is the key to poverty.

Proverb

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Tom Lehrer

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Abdus Salam

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Rodan of Alexandria

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

Mae West

The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen

Bertrand Russell

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

Salvatore Quasimodo

It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons

Douglas Adams

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

Billy Baldwin

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli