Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

Sanjay Dutt

Don't start with a class. Start with a protocol.

Dave Abrahams

Talk to your children while they are eating;what you say will stay even after you are gone.

American Indian Proverb, Nez Per

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

Lawrence Summers

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

William Faulkner, character Thom

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

David Mamet

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

Diablo Cody

You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all.

Cormac McCarthy

I want to be a cool mom.

Tori Spelling

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

Bella Abzug

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Walter Cronkite