Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Walter Lippmann

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

Ron Paul

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Peter Guber

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Edward Norton

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Quintilian

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mary McCarthy

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

Denise Mina

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

William Shakespeare

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Honore de Balzac

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Friedrich Nietzsche

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Fred W. Friendly

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Carl Sagan