The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

Clarence Day

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

Josh McDowell

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E. M. Forster

Life is a continuous feeling wherein something you work for it to be happy in terms of your soul.

Fernando Lachica

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Donald Laird

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Michael R. LeGault

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Claude Bernard

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

Amanda Peet

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Terry Wogan