Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

Peter Porter

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

David Carradine

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Andrew Greeley

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Thucydides

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Stephen King

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

George Santayana

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

Madeleine Albright

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Samuel Butler

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.

Matt Emmons

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

Frank Tipler

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Clark Moustakas