The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Oscar Wilde

Pulvis et umbra sumus

Cassandra Clare

Which one is the truth, sir?Which period do you mean, son?

Toba Beta

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Terry Pratchett

I think I might love you too, Charter help me, but now is-

Garth Nix

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

Wallace Shawn

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Annie Dillard

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure

Theodore Roethke

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Jeanne Moreau