Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Ambrose Bierce

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Ronald Knox

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Stacia Tauscher

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

Donald Cargill

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

Kevin Rudd

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.

Katha Upanishad

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Denis E. Brogan

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Henry David Thoreau

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Ellen DeGeneres

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Benjamin Disraeli