There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

David Prowse

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Jeanette Winterson

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Alice Sebold

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

David Amram

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

Edward Blishen

In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

William Howard Taft

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.

Howard Brenton

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Edmund Burke