Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

Charlie Brooker

feminism is for everybody

Bell Hooks

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

Phil Callaway

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Stendhal

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Rita Mae Brown

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

Source Unknown

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

Bob Greene

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

Caroline Kennedy

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Tracey Ullman

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

Amanda Holden