One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too'.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Nancy Pelosi

Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.

Tommy Tran

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Harry Seidler

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Lewis Mumford

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Orlando A. Battista

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

Elliot Richardson

It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.

Arto Lindsay

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

Lenny Kravitz

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Sir John Denham

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

Remy de Gourmont