He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

A. N. Wilson

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

Dan Simmons

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

George Eliot

I love to play pool.

Dante Hall

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

Bertrand Russell

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

Harri Holkeri

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Gustave Flaubert

Here comes February, a little girl with her first valentine, a red bow in her wind-blown hair, a kiss waiting on her lips, a tantrum just back of her laughter.

Hal Borland

Remarks are not literature.

Gertrude Stein

Live Long and Prosper

Leonard Nimoy

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

Robert Ballard