One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Anne Campbell

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Pearl Bailey

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Jodi Picoult

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Horace

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

John Boyne

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

Harlan Coben

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.

Margaret Fuller

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

Tom Felton

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

William Shakespeare