It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Olin Miller

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Christopher Columbus

In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen.

Shay Mitchell

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Oliver Goldsmith

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Paul H. Dunn

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Victor Hugo

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

Larry David

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Herbert Croly

What's done can't be undone.

William Shakespeare

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Samuel Butler

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Adrian Mitchell