It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

Enya

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

Philip Gibbs

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

James Dean

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

Bernard Crick

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Edward de Bono

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Miguel de Cervantes

The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.

Robert Crais

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

Geddy Lee

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

Stephen Dorff

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Rudolf Virchow