Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Lee Iacocca

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

Sonia Johnson

Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Bill Brandt

We need to be pro-science we have to go back to science.

Al Franken

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Phillips Brooks

Before I die, I want to fight for life.

Paulo Coelho

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

Joseph Henry

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Sophocles

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Pablo Picasso

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez