Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Barbara de Angelis

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.

Billie Holiday

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Henry Miller

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

John Steinbeck

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

Kiana Tom

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Francis Bacon

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

Mike Myers

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

Clive Owen

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Rebecca West

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy.

Lady Gaga