I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Walter Scott

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Don Herold

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Burton Richter

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

Johnny Knoxville

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Source Unknown

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

Jason Bateman

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journy of exploration and discovery.

David Almond

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from non-successful ones is perseverance.

Steve Jobs, Jobs quote from 1995

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Oscar Wilde

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

John Muir

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Johann von Goethe

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Doug Horton