There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.

Terry Pratchett

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Louisa May Alcott

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

Rick Danko

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Luc De Clapiers

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Walter Lippmann

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

Ellen Page

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

Kevin Costner

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley