It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!

Emily Dickinson

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed -- but never the husband).

James Thurber

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

Robert Carlyle

Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Arthur Erickson

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bill Cosby

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop, A Bishop's Confessio

COFFEE.EXE missing. Insert cup and press any key.

Anon.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

Kerry King

The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

Richard Henry Pratt

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

Heidi Klum