There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Paul Weyrich

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J. K. Rowling

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Barry Zito

The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

George Orwell, 1984, Pt 1 ch 3

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Janeane Garofalo

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Kemal Ataturk

The innate power you possess to achieve your dreams is immeasurable.

Steve Maraboli

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Alan Turing

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Origami helps in the study of mathematics and science in many ways.... Using origami anyone can become a scientific experimenter with no fuss.

Martin David Kruskal

It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Blaise Pascal

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Oscar Wilde