You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

Jean Racine

Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

Ernest Istook

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

George J. Mitchell

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Vincent Van Gogh

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Henry David Thoreau

No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.

Matsuri Hino

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.

Carl Van Vechten

Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

Bob Geldof

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jos

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Billy Graham