Men are what their mothers made them.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Jean Rostand

I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

Daniel H. Wilson

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

Christopher Hitchens

In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

Ralph Merkle

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Victor Hugo

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Annie Dillard

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally a man any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Percy Wynham Lewis

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Man tends to root for the underdog, because he fears that he will find himself in that same position far too often.

Michael S. Rosenberg

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Samuel Johnson

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Ellen Key