In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Friedrich Nietzsche

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

Bill Cosby

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

Ken Gire

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

Ron Lewis

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Ryan Tedder

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Nelson Demille

Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man? a world without a sun.

CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. ii.

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

George Orwell

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Tim Vine

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

Michael D. Higgins

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

Wayne Rooney