Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

Joe Sakic

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

Preity Zinta

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

Andrew Cohen

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Robert Doisneau

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Jack Simplot

In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus. Now he has a unique chance to prove that he meant it seriously: for him, as for all Americans today, Love thy neighbor! means Love the Muslims! OR IT MEANS NOTHING AT ALL.

Slavoj Zizek

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Oscar Wilde

Eyes, look your last Arms, take your last embraceand lips, O you doors of breath seal with a righteous kiss as a dateless bargain to the engrossing death

William Shakespeare

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Jane Austen