How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

Ashley Scott

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.

Cynthia Ozick

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Paul Berg

Every man has a right to one country. He has a right to love and serve that country and to feel that it is absolutely his country and that he has in it every right possessed by anyone else. It is our duty to require the man of German blood who is an American citizen to give up all allegiance to Germany wholeheartedly and without on his part any mental reservation whatever. If he does this it becomes no less our duty to give him the full rights of an American, including our loyal respect and friendship without on our part any mental reservation whatever. The duties are reciprocal, and from the standpoint of American patriotism one is as important as the other.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Jim Bishop, Age of Consent to Wh

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

H. L. Mencken

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

William Dunbar

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Charles Churchill

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg