In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.

C.S. Lewis

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

Anthony Robbins

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

Jeffrey Kluger

For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...

Stephen King

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.

Lewis Thomas

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

Nina Bawden

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

Ken Calvert

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

Spike Milligan

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

George Bernard Shaw

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll