The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Eric Hoffer

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

Jodi Picoult

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

Arianna Huffington

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

Patti Stanger

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

Nick Clegg

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Sue Townsend

This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth

Ring Lardner

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale