Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Will Rogers

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

Damian Lewis

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Jacob Chanowski

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment.

Cat Deeley

Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas

Ambrose Bierce

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

LouisFerdinand Celine

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Marcel Proust

All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

Kevin Smith

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Frank Carson

War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.

George Orwell

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm