I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

Michael Chang

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Clifford Geertz

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Proverbs 18:19

Bible

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

Roger Wicker

If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Norman Augustine

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

Johnny Winter

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Ai Weiwei

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.

John Ruskin

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.

Proverb

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

Mark Addy

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Florynce R. Kennedy

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein