Movies are about escape.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

Mark Twain

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.

Richard Rhodes

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

Margot Asquith

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Victor Hugo

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

John Greenleaf Whittier

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

Bo Bennett

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Horace Mann

Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?

Christopher Hitchens

Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

Heather Anastasiu

You walk the way for yourself, only for yourself.

Captain Henri