[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.

John Allston

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

Joe Cornish

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Edna Ferber

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Roy Blount, Jr.

We may give advice but we cannot give conduct

Benjamin Franklin

Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.

Ron Fournier

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.

Glenda Millard

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Robert Frost

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

George Bernard Shaw

Memory, joy, are intuitions; and even mathematical propositions become intuitions, for education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Blaise Pascal