It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

James A. Froude

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Andre Gide

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

John Searle

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Neil Gaiman

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Susie Bright

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

Look into the world

Laurence Sterne, Sermons sermon

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Steven Wright

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Tertullian

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

Vince Cable

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Ben Johnson, Every Man In His Hu

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword

Samuel Johnson