I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Michael Shannon

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

Nicholas Negroponte

Your exercise of faith builds character. Fortified character expands your capacity to exercise greater faith. Thus, your confidence in making correct decisions is enhanced. And the strengthening cycle continues. The more your character is fortified, the more enabled you are to exercise the power of faith for yet stronger character.

Richard G. Scott

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Dorothy Parker

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

Sir Walter Scott

We are pagans. We deify each other.

Lara Biyuts

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

Horatio Alger

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

Condoleezza Rice

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

John Gray

Acknowledgement and celebration are essential to fueling passion, making people feel valid and valuable, and giving the team a real sense of progress that makes it all worthwhile.

Dwight Frindt

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.

Maxwell Maltz

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

George Bernard Shaw