As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Octavia Butler

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Bob Hope

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Gay Talese

It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.

Jon Steele

Never lose your passion 2 dream.

Pablo

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

Stephen King

That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said she was a quiet-tempered lady, and the housekeeper had said it was the common lot, and the butler had said who'd have thought it, and the housemaid had said she couldn't hardly believe it, and the footman had said it seemed exactly like a dream, they had quite worn the subject out, and began to think their mourning was wearing rusty too.

Charles Dickens

A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.

Steven Wright

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Hugh Prather

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Uma Thurman