All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Noam Chomsky

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.

Gary Oldman

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

Blythe Danner

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter.

The Click Five

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.

John Stuart Mill

Self-trust is the first secret of success

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lewis Morris: It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I do? Oscar Wilde: Join it

Oscar Wilde

I studied secondary education.

Jim McKay

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chen Shui-bian

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Ralph Waldo Emerson