Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

Cyrano de Bergerac

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

Albert Einstein

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems, 1

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Jodi Picoult

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Theodor Adorno

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

Arlen Specter

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

Wes Borland

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Jean Paul Richter

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Bette Midler

You know that feeling you get when you pass by a cop doing like 20 over, when your stomach hits the floor and you get weak in the knees and it seams like time just stops for a min? Thats how i feel every time i see her. I love it.

Andrew Vyvyan

...the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.

David Hewson