Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Terry Pratchett

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Enya

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

Leslie Fiedler

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

Jean Baudrillard

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

Lewis Carroll

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Luc Montagnier

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

Source Unknown

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

Cameron Diaz