Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Terry Pratchett

I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.

Suzanne Collins

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth

Charles Dickens

Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might. -FEAR

Michael Grant, Gone

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Fiona Apple

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

St. Jerome

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?

Orson Scott Card

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Ben Okri