In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

Nigella Lawson

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

Clement Clarke Moore

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Mark Twain

B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Thomas Moore

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

R. Venning

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

Hugh Laurie

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

Jack LaLanne

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Hoover

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don't think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that... points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos.

Guillermo Gonzalez

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Thomas Wolfe