I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new

Mark Twain

We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can protect others, above all the states to which we are allied or in which we have a great national interest.

Richard Milhous Nixon

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

Marc Jacobs

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

Neil Gaiman

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Source Unknown

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Samuel Johnson

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

Tarsem Singh

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S. Truman

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

George Eliot

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

Aristotle

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

David Lewis-Williams