All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).

Paul Theroux

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

George Washington

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

P. L. Debevoise

During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a person inside.

Noel Streatfeild

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Laurence J. Mcginley

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

Rich Kulawiec

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Tim Berners-Lee

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Evan Esar