Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Lewis Mumford

One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one

Oscar Wilde

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

Sergei Lukyanenko

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Bill Shankly

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

Wim Wenders

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

Mark Hanna

Always dip your toe in the past before stepping into the future

Benny Bellamacina

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Michael Shermer

Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.

John Krasinski

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Euripides