A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, It is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

George Mallory

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

Mike Figgis

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

My only wish is that my wishes be at rest.

Ruckett

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Werner Herzog

The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants success consciousness which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing habit of success.

Paul J. Meyer

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

Bum Phillips

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

Jasmine Guy

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Paul Muldoon