A poor man is all schemes.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

Tom Brady

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

George Chapman

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln

When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.

William B. Given

I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.

Nicholas Sparks

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

Jeff Lindsay

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edward Edwards

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Tracey Ullman

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

Mira Nair