I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

Barry Commoner

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

Source Unknown

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

Sigmund Freud

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Romain Rolland

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Mary Douglas

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

May Sarton

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Marjorie Holmes

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

Tom Lantos

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

Wayne Rooney

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon