Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

Carlos Fuentes

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

Dale Dauten

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

Emmanuelle Beart

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

Celine Dion

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now your gambols, your songs your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning Quite chap-fallen Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.

William Shakespeare

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

Florida Scott Maxwell

He understood now why she was so much calmer, so much happier when he held her hand while they walked. When he first did that, she had looked at their linked fingers quizzically, but didn't pull away, even though she had been as skittish as a stray cat. limit.

Sandra Ross

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Lewis Mumford

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

Dee Dee Myers

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Thom Mayne

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Henri B. Stendhal