The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Henry David Thoreau

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

George Eads

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Nelson Algren

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

Loni Anderson

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Carl Sagan

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Charles Kingsley

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.

Richard Hammond

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

George Eliot

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

Anna Chlumsky

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Johann von Goethe

He has not a single redeeming defect.

Benjamin Disraeli