What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Elbert Hubbard

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

Jeff Bridges

I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

Orson Scott Card

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It was just the most amazing thing, right there in our camp.

Stephen Richards

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

Horace

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Gloria Naylor

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

James Wolcott

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Norman Vincent Peale

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

Abraham Lincoln

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson