Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

Scott Westerfeld

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A. A. Milne

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Iain Banks

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

Giambattista Vico

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

John Green

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

Theresa May

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.

Josh Radnor

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Pablo Picasso

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

Elia Kazan

I have come to the conclusion that the bed comprehends our whole life; for we were bom in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.

Guy de Maupassant