This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Emmanuelle Beart

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Mary Astell

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Jean de La Fontaine

I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.

Lisa Kleypas

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

Source Unknown

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Thomas Jefferson

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Oscar Wilde

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Tryon Edwards

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou