John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

It's tucked away behind my eyes, where all my f*cked up thoughts can hide, 'cause God forbid I hurt somebody...

Tim Minchin

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

Mark Knopfler

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

Banana Yoshimoto

In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

John Dewey

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Henry A. Kissinger

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

Mahatma Gandhi

Live in the sunshine

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

Milo Ventimiglia

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

Jeff Foxworthy

This phrase, Citius, Altius, Fortius is the Olympic Motto.

Voula Patoulidou

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Dave Matthews