What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Hunter S. Thompson

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Drew Barrymore

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Octavio Paz

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

David Miliband

Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition.

John Wagstaff

The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon. The religious way is the way that touches universal relationships; that goes high, wide and deep, that expands the feelings of kinship.

Sophia Lyon Fahs, Today's Childr

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

Karrie Webb

Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without orator.

William Shakespeare

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

Michael Sheen

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

An Wang