With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

A man who has been bent on it for nearly three score years, who has nurtured it from a tiny, poisonous seed to a living, choking flower. He will see it through, unless you end him first.

Cassandra Clare

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Rudy Rucker

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Elizabeth Taylor

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

Avril Lavigne

When angry count four; when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Susan Gerhart

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Michel Foucault

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

W. Somerset Maugham

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. It is to be feared, however, that if the word is avoided the confusions of thought with which it has been associated may persist.

Bertrand Russell

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to F

The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein