One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Jean Baudrillard

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

Tom Stoppard

Guys don't want women with good taste, guys want women who taste good.

Sheryl J. Anderson

Human beings used to be molecules which could do many, many different sorts of dances, or decline to dance at all --as they pleased. My mother could do the waltz, the tango, the rumba....

Kurt Vonnegut

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

Sheryl Sandberg

Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.

Terry Pratchett

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

James Lovelock

With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.

Samuel Johnson

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

Rosie O'Donnell

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Toby Young

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare