The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

Reginald W. Kaufman

Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

Rachel Bilson

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Daniel H. Wilson

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Marilyn Hacker

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

James Dyson

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Michael Rapaport

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Charles F. Kettering

When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances.

Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

Jacques Ellul

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

Brian Eno

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

Odysseus Elytis