Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

David Seabury

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Jose Narosky

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Thomas Carlyle

I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

Oscar Wilde

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Ovid

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Andrew Bernstein

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

George Bernard Shaw

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Thomas Huxley

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Ambrose Bierce

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

Laura Linney

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Mason Cooley