Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

John F. Kennedy

Scared, Angel?

Becca Fitzpatrick

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Enid Nemy

I hold that we shall one day recognize in Freud's life-work the cornerstone for the building of a new anthropology and therewith of a new structure, to which many stones are being brought up today, which shall be the future dwelling of a wiser and freer humanity.

Thomas Mann

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Anon.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Thomas Szasz

In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.

James Henry Breasted

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

George Bernard Shaw

The bottom line is in heaven.

Edwin H. Land

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Joan Jett

There is no bad weather, just soft runners.

Bill Bowerman