One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Kim Stanley Robinson

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

Carmen Electra

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Arthur Henderson

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Harold Rosenberg

New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

Margot Robbie

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

Aldous Huxley

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

Francesca Lia Block

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Will Rogers

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.

Gus Van Sant

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

Vinton Cerf