In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

Joshua Foer

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

E. O. Wilson

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Victor Hugo

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

Rhona Mitra

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

Tom Colicchio

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.

Gary D. Schmidt

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Robert A. Heinlein

The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

John Kellogg

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.

George Washington

Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the

Edward Young