Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

George Bernard Shaw

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

Steven Spielberg

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Christopher Hitchens

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Albert Einstein

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Ron Chernow

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

H. L. Mencken

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Nicholas Murray Butler

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Al Gore

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Quintilian

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes

Andre Gide