The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

Andy Partridge

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Jayne Crook

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

Anthony Foxx

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Steve Jobs

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

John Ruskin

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

Al Gore

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Harold Bloom

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Maya Angelou

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Steve Wozniak

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

Dave Barry

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

Homer