The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.

Santosh Kalwar

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Aristotle

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Douglas William Jerrold, A Land

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Paul D. Boyer

I love going to movies.

Serena Williams

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.

Kazuo Ishiguro

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

Syd Barrett

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Gloria Steinem

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Marquis de Sade

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Friedrich Nietzsche