No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness... The only food at the Hotel X which was ever prepared cleanly was the staff's.

George Orwell

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl Buck

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Alan Kay

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

Philip Greenspun

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Groucho Marx

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Jim Morrison

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Henry Ward Beecher

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Pablo Neruda, Memoirs, ch. 11, 1

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway

You must match your energy, your vibration, with that of the universe, bringing it to a higher frequency where it synchronizes with the object, person, or situation you require.

Stephen Richards

It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.

Neil Gaiman

All these books have lived together ... inside my mind. They follow one another only on paper and because of an utter impossibility to let themselves be all written at the same time. Whatever book I write, I never devote myself to it completely, and the matter which most insistently requires me soon later develops, however, at the other end of me.

Andre Gide, Journal, SeptemberOc