You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

I used to think that information was destroyed in black holes. But the AdS/CFT correspondence led me to change my mind. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Stephen Hawking

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

William Blake

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Matthew Henry

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

Peter Schuyler

People of a vertain rank will always keep a cool distance from common people, as if they were afraid to lose their dignity by too much familiarity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Ansel Adams

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

Tony Blair

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

C. Wright Mills

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

Brooke Burke

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

T. Boone Pickens