He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens.

Shadowlands

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Tony Visconti

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Gerald Stanley Lee

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

J.K. Rowling

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Danish proverb

And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some very powerful states have agreed to work together to heal the problems of another autonomous state and, almost as collateral, turn some animals into people at a stroke.

Terry Pratchett

We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.

Albert Einstein

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

James Lovelock

I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

Jacques Pepin

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Jodi Picoult

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

Jane Byrne