The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bertrand Russell

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Henry Fuseli

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Madeleine L'Engle

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Suzanne Collins

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Oliver Cromwell

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

Gail Porter

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

Kate Atkinson

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Ransom K. Ferm

I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

Steve Jobs

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave.

Stonewall Jackson

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

Jessica Lange