It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

George Bernard Shaw

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

Chuck Palahniuk

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Aldous Huxley

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

David Douglass

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Clara Schumann

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Roald Amundsen

Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

Haruki Murakami

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayso

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few

Albert Einstein

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai Stevenson

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

Jinato Hu