With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Aristotle

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

Wilson Greatbatch

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Edward Moore

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

W. H. Auden

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.

Rashida Jones

Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage.

Will Stanton

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Valerie Solanas

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Adam Lambert

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

J. K. Rowling

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau