The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

Sara Paxton

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Leo Tolstoy

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

Gerald Ford

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Lascelles Abercrombie

I would love to spend all my time writing to you I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

Luigi Pirandello

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing -- the result.

Vince Lombardi

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Lord Chesterfield

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barber