Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

Paul Berg

To preserve the freedom of the human mind and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think the condition of man will proceed in improvement. The generation which is going off the stage has deserved well of mankind for the struggles it has made, and for having arrested the course of despotism which had overwhelmed the world for thousands and thousands of years. If there seems to be danger that the ground they have gained will be lost again, that danger comes from the generation your contemporary. But that the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

Thomas Jefferson

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Steven Wright

A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

Patti Stanger

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

C. M. Ward

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Ed Turner

The young specialist in English Lit, ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong.... My answer to him was

Isaac Asimov

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

Harrison Ford

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Victor Hugo

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Jane Austen

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Mason Cooley

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Sheena Easton