To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Thomas Brackett Reed

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

Alice Steinbach

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

Marlon Wayans

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

Andre Breton

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Bill Budge

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life ,And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets .And what is it to work with love ?it is to weave the colth with threads from your heart , even as if your beloved were to wear that colth .It is to build a house with affection , even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house .It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy , even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit .It is to change all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit .He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone , is nobler than he who ploughs the soil.

Kahlil Gibran

Communication is so key.

Ashley Tisdale

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

Eric Stoltz

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Esther Dyson

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

Cat Stevens

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Paul McCartney