One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Agatha Christie

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

Rachel Maddow

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's amazing how fast gold works.

Terry Pratchett

Next comes the realist phase (After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.).

Terry Pratchett

Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.

Ali Bin Abi Thalib

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

Paul Prudhomme

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Charles H. Parkhurst

Night has come! Leaning from the window, we gaze at the vast sombre stretch of the city below us, pierced with multitudinous points of light. Jeanne presses her hand to her forehead as she leans upon the window-bar, and seems a little sad. And I say to myself as I watch her: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves: we must die in one life before we can enter into another! And as if answering my thought, the young girl murmurs to me. My guardian, I am so happy; and still I feel as if I wanted to cry!http://www.archive.org/stream/crimeofsylvestre00franuoft/crimeofsylvestre00franuoft_djvu.txt

Anatole France, The Crime of Syl

Day, n. A period of twenty four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

John Churton Collins

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

Joely Fisher