The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

Julie Andrews

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Neil Armstrong

The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

Walter Chrysler

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Gertrude Stein

The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

Christina Rossetti

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.

Mary Wortley Montagu

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Viggo Mortensen

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

Leo Burnett

We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

James Clerk Maxwell

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Iain Banks