I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Susan Sontag

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results,but that's not why we do it.

Richard Feynman

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Germaine Greer

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

Mia Hamm

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Walter Benjamin

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

Sports are not for everyone.

Dante Hall

Might was the measure of right.

F. L. Lucan

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Wilma Rudolph