If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

Steve Sabol

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them

Mark Haddon

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Joshua Logan

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Heinrich Heine

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

Jesse Jackson

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Ernest Hemingway

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Julian Clary

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.

Walter Isaacson